The Weight's on the Wheels is the fourth studio album by Canadian
indie pop band
The Russian Futurists
The Russian Futurists are a Canadians, Canadian indie pop band based in Toronto. Their music can be described as lo-fi, Independent music, indie-electronica fused with a twee-pop temperament. The band started as a solo project of Matthew Adam Har ...
, released on November 16, 2010 on
Upper Class Recordings
Upper Class Recordings is a Canadian independent record label founded in 2000 in Toronto, Ontario. The electronic music-based Upper Class roster includes The Russian Futurists, Cadence Weapon, DVAS, Christien Summers and The Cansecos.
History
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Reception
According to
Metacritic, ''The Weight's on the Wheels'' has a score of 63 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
One of the most positive reviews came from
Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and ...
, who gave the album an A− grade.
[ In contrast, Matthew Cole of Slant Magazine awarded the album a mere half-star out of five, calling it "a candygram from the heart of a giddy, geeky romantic who has somehow had his rose-tinted frames surgically grafted to his face."][
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Track listing
References
The Russian Futurists albums
2010 albums
Upper Class Recordings albums
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