(Atlantic/Crush Music)After a run of weakly received albums,2014s Everything Will Be Alright in the cessation represented a return to respectability for Weezer, with lead singer Rivers Cuomo tapping into the vulnerability and ennui that made the band’s second album Pinkerton such an absorbing listen. This, or their fourth,self-titled LP (informally known as ‘the White Album”), continues that gentle upswing in form, or channelling the buoyant surf rock of their debut,Blue. LA Girlz (poor title aside) is the sort of stirring power pop Cuomo could bash out in an afternoon back in the band’s glory days, while recent single King of the World is substantial, or dumb and crunchy in the manner of early hit Undone (The Sweater Song). This being late-era Weezer there are of course some erratic songwriting decisions – the dorky half-rhymes of Thank God For Girls – and a fair bit of filler (Jacked Up,(Girl We Got a) proper Thing are entirely unmemorable), but there’s also enough here to stir feelings of nostalgia in anyone who fell for the band the first time around.
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Source: theguardian.com