- Record Label: Upper Class
- Release Date: Nov 16, 2010
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Jan 7, 2011The album's tracks combine heavy electro with underlying roots of hip-hop and vocals similar to that of The Faint to create a solid offering from start to finish.
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Dec 17, 2010Wheels starts to lose a bit of steam toward its end, but as with previous Russian Futurists albums, it's over well before Hart's shtick turns monotonous.
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Jan 7, 2011The end result is that The Weight's on the Wheels leaves you wanting to come back for more, to fully engage and parse through the heavy hip-hop beats and the dense wordplay.
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Dec 17, 2010Hart continues to experiment, ensuring that his wide smile never gets tiresome.
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Under The RadarDec 23, 2010Hater will hate, but The Weight's on the Wheels is the definition of an earworm. [Year End 2010, p.73]
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Dec 17, 2010Most of these songs are not quite up to Hart's usual caliber. His inherent charms are hard to deny; they just feel slightly threadbare this time out.
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Dec 17, 2010Ultimately The Weight's on the Wheels works on the whole. Its finest moments are excellent examples of the wry electro-pop that TRF are certainly proficient at; at its worst, however, the album lacks any evidence of an evolution in sound or style, suffering from mediocrity rather than being distinctly poor.
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Dec 17, 2010Things pick up in the second half, when the lyrics become more surprising and the beats less radio-friendly. Despite some perplexing moments, there's a lot to like.
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Dec 17, 2010The Weight's On The Wheels is peppered with nice hooks and a few clever moves, and it ends just as strongly as it began, with the dream-poppy "Horseshoe Fortune." But precious little tunes like this need more than just catchiness to make an impact.
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Dec 17, 2010As presented, the overly peppy pop production and the homeroom poetry of a lyricist whose either trying way too hard or not nearly hard enough to be clever become mutually reinforcing aggravations, and The Weight's on the Wheels ends up as one of the most annoying records in recent memory.