Weightlifting (album)

Weightlifting is the fourth studio album by the Scottish pop/rock band The Trash Can Sinatras, released in 2004.[6][7]

Weightlifting
Studio album by
The Trash Can Sinatras
ReleasedAugust 31st, 2004
GenreIndie pop, jangle pop
Length44:19
LabelspinART[1]
ProducerSimon Dine, The Trash Can Sinatras
The Trash Can Sinatras chronology
A Happy Pocket
(1996)		 Weightlifting
(2004)		 In the Music
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert Christgau(dud)[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]
The Observer[4]
Uncut[5]

Production

The album was financed by the band and through a grant from the Scottish Arts Council.[1]

Critical reception

The Washington Post called the album "less jaunty than the band's early work, with a high percentage of string-swaddled laments about such subjects as faithless women, haunted widowers and unsolved child murders."[8] Exclaim! wrote that "many of the compositions wander into slower, quieter places of lyrical introspection about love and love astray, while other upbeat numbers seem thrown in for good measure, abound with delightfully catchy guitar melodies and hopeful vocals."[9] The A.V. Club wrote that "songs occasionally ride dangerously close to the adult-contemporary world (the weeping guitar on 'Leave Me Alone,' for example), but only in search of something simply adult."[10]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Welcome Back"2:24
2."Got Carried Away"3:48
3."All the Dark Horses"4:10
4."What Women Do to Men"4:04
5."Freetime"2:26
6."Usually"4:53
7."It's a Miracle"3:09
8."A Coda"2:44
9."Trouble Sleeping"4:34
10."Country Air"3:27
11."Leave Me Alone"4:01
12."Weightlifting"4:39

References
  1. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 246.
  2. "Weightlifting - The Trash Can Sinatras | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. "Robert Christgau: CG: Trashcan Sinatras". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. "Trashcan Sinatras: Weightlifting | OMM | The Observer". www.theguardian.com.
  5. "Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting". 1 December 2004.
  6. "The Trash Can Sinatras | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. "Heavy Rotation". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. 9 September 2004 – via Google Books.
  8. "TRASHCAN SINATRAS" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  9. "Trashcan Sinatras Weightlifting". exclaim.ca.
  10. "Trashcan Sinatras: Weightlifting". Music.
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