| Weightlifting | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop, jangle pop | |||
| Length | 44:19 | |||
| Label | SpinART [1] | |||
| Producer | Simon Dine, Trashcan Sinatras | |||
| Trashcan Sinatras chronology | ||||
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Weightlifting is the fourth studio album by the Scottish pop/rock band Trashcan Sinatras, released in 2004. [2] [3]
The album was financed by the band and through a grant from the Scottish Arts Council. [1]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Robert Christgau |  [5] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [1] |
| The Observer | [6] |
| Uncut | [7] |
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]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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