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- Summary: Experience has only made their work richer, bringing gravity to the subject matter and lightness to the sound of this new album. Keeping things honest--and often rapturous--has become a modus operandi.
- Record Label: Mardev
- Genre(s): Rock, Indie/Alternative
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Top Track
Enjoy the Silence | |
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Words like violence Break the silence Come crashing in Into my little world Painful to me Pierce right through me Can't you understand Oh, my little... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 11 out of 14
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Mixed: 3 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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It's the best sort of covers album, reverent to the source material but not beholden to it.
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This is how the covers album should be done, with tight technique and loving affection blending together to give the new versions life and bite.
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Alternative PressCover albums are usually a contractual cop-out, but the diverse scope and amount of thought put into each track on If I Had A Hi-Fi prevents it from sounding superfluous or self-indulgent. [Jun 2010, p.107]
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Their approach avoids downright imitation of their source material, and they somehow capture a broad swathe of popular music in their own style.
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Covers, of course, are always fraught with peril, and at times singer/guitarist Matthew Caws’ inflection has a way of fermenting the source material’s latent cheese.
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On If I Had a Hi-Fi, Nada Surf accomplishes the rare feat of producing a covers album that won't just waste space on your CD shelf.
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Were Nada Surf not so comfortable with their own style, If I Had a Hi-Fi might play entirely as an indier-than-thou stunt performance instead of a fun, if somewhat slight, one-off record.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Nov 20, 2019
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Aug 27, 2010
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