The Weight Is a Gift

The Weight Is a Gift is the fourth album by the alternative rock band, Nada Surf. It was released on Barsuk on September 20, 2005.

Many versions of the album contain a four-track bonus disc. It includes the songs “From The Rooftop Down”, “Fools” (which is a cover of country singer Johnny Duncan’s 1972 hit and was already covered by The Only Ones), the original version of “Concrete Bed” and the song “Au Fond Du Rêve”. The latter originally was written and performed by Françoise Hardy, a French singer and actress, who was a cultural icon in the 1960s and for example mentioned by Bob Dylan in his poem “Some other kinds of songs”.

The cover art comes from Alex Holden, who was a former co-worker of Matthew Caws at the Earwax Records shop in New York.