Van Weezer

2021, May 7

Apple Spotify Power Pop Alternative Rock 98 Crush Music/Atlantic Pitchfork 5.9/10 A.V. Club B The Needle Drop 5/10 NME 3/5 Paste 5.5/10 Kerrang! 4/5 Rolling Stone 3/5 DIY 2.5/5 All Music 4.5/5 Exclaim! 7/10 Gigwise 8/10 Under The Radar 5.0/10 Clash 7/10 Mojo 3/5 Pop Matters 5/10 Northern Transmissions 7.0/10 Spectrum Culture 60% Beats Per Minute 34% Sputnikmusic 2.0/5

Pitchfork 5.9/10 Rivers Cuomo’s latest is a tribute to his hair metal heroes, but it never goes all that hard.

A.V. Club B Bad Weezer often feels like it’s striving for relevance; Van Weezer couldn’t possibly care less about seeming relevant, or even vaguely cool.

NME 3/5 The heavy metal pastiche often clashes against Rivers Cuomo's sensitive songwriting, but album 15 does boast one of the band's best choruses

Kerrang! 4/5 All Hale! Rivers Cuomo and co. bring big riffs and bigger tunes in irresistible ’80s hard rock homage…

Rolling Stone 3/5 Album Review: Weezer's 'Van Weezer' is a surprisingly big-hearted tribute to the big-hair era

DIY 2.5/5 It just doesn’t make sense.

Under The Radar 5.0/10 “Daydreaming of my escape, listening to Aerosmith/Later on, I will call my mom,” sings Rivers Cuomo aged 15 and a half, sorry I mean 50 years old, on Weezer’s 15th studio album, Van Weezer.

Clash 7/10 It’s finally here! The fabled ‘Van Weezer’ has finally arrived! Take your pandemic, your year-long delays, and your brilliant surprise

Pop Matters 5/10 There's no other way to process Weezer's 'Van Weezer' than with a tongue planted in a winking cheek somewhere. Weezer going metal is still Weezer after all.