The Weight Is a Gift

The Weight Is a Gift is the fourth album by American alternative rock band Nada Surf.

It was recorded in two sessions at Hall of Justice in Seattle and Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco.

Critic Marc Hogan of Pitchfork wrote that the album is "another often-compelling set of melancholic post-Coldplay guitar-pop, made grittily optimistic by the tribulations of post-hipster existence".

According to NPR's program All Songs Considered, the band says the album "answers questions of lust and deception, greed and love, joy and regret and the rites of passage you weren't quite ready to pass through.

"[4] In another interview, Matthew Caws described the imagery in the song "Your Legs Grow", saying: "When a challenge presents itself to you, it is so easy to have a kind of panicky feeling where you think, 'Oh my god – if that happened to me, I would die.