Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Weezer return to their roots here, hiring back original producer Ric Ocasek of The Cars to mold their indelible hooks into sleek punk rock–based new wave hits. Leader Rivers Cuomo mostly ditches his experimental side and focuses on guitar-based rock songs. “Eulogy for a Rock Band” celebrates the music’s potential brilliance. “Lonely Girl” features a blazing guitar solo, and “I’ve Had It Up to Here” shows off Cuomo’s expansive vocal range. Ocasek and Cuomo clearly understand one another and together know how to get the best from every song; even the prog-rock trilogy that ends Weezer’s ninth studio album is kept tight.
Weezer's ninth studio album features contributions from Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, along with Blue Album producer Ric Ocasek's return to the soundboard helm. The album is one of Weezer's most enjoyable in recent memory.
Somewhere along the line Weezer got goofy. Well, that’s not entirely true: The group was always a little goofy. Even the group’s lionized first two albums were peppered with fumbled jokes and dopey hip-hop appropriations. But by 2005’s Make Believe, that geek humor had given way to just plain bad humor, and it began…
The breeze of nostalgia is welcome in parts but is wholly unsatisfying - Cuomo's latest may leave echoes in your head for days, but the play button untouched.
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Two songs into Everything Will Be Alright in the End, Rivers Cuomo sings "we belong in the rock world," a repudiation of the big beat experimentation of Raditude, a 2009 record that found Weezer working with such pop producers as Dr. Luke and Butch Walker.
Weezer are getting old. These cult Los Angeles indie rock mainstays are at album number nine (if we’re not counting 2010’s offcuts compilation Death to False Metal), and their discography charts an ascent from pubescent garage rock to men with jobs and kids and fame.
The highest compliment we can pay a Weezer album these days is that it's "not a complete embarrassment."
You're reading a Weezer review. Ergo, you're a geek, you spend time on the Internet, and you know what a troll is. Well, Rivers Cuomo has stopped trolling his fans: this is a return to "serious" (or as close to it as he ever got) songwriting from Weezer.
Weezer’s Everything Will Be Alright in the End is an exultant “fuck you” to dashed expectations and the snarky wallow in past glories.
Flashes of power-pop skill – but some real stinkers, too, writes <strong>Lanre Bakare</strong>
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End review: Weezer return to form by doing what they've always done.
Californian four-piece tread water in a sea of adolescent power pop. Review by Russ Coffey