Event Listing - Music

Tue Sep 2, 2008 - Wed Sep 3, 2008

Nada Surf plus Birdmonster

Location	Date and Time
Great American Music Hall (GAMH) 859 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94109 map cross street: Polk district: Polk Gulch/Van Ness	Tue Sep 2, 2008 (Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm) Wed Sep 3, 2008 (Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm)

Description

Lucky, the title of Nada Surf's fifth album, is at once literal and ironic. Like the songs that singer- guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot crafted for their previous two albums, Let Go (2003) and The Weight Is A Gift (2005), Lucky is filled with images of restlessness, longing and the elusiveness of love. Yet the band counterbalances the lyrical bittersweetness with a musical buoyancy. Intimate songs become in-it-together anthems, thanks to the chiming guitars, propulsive rhythms, and the emotional candor in Caws' vocals. A song like “Beautiful Beat” segues from a sparsely arranged, confessional first verse into a harmony-laden chorus and reaches multi-layered, canon-like proportions before the track fades out. If Caws is often suggesting that romance and resolution may still be an inch or two out of reach, he's also proffering immediate musical solace.