Weezer's new album aptly named "Weezer" (just like the two others), is the sixth full-length from the pop-rock dork squad. The albums seems to blend wonderfully with their other albums, but still allows them to experiment to their hearts content.
The songs go everywhere. From uber-poppy enjoying life with "Pork and Beans" to the acoustic and melodramatic "Heart Songs", and it's nice to see them experimenting even more. The odd hyphy sounds that occur on "Pork and Beans" feel as though it's from an entire different band, while still remaining to their Weezer geek-rock roots.
Their absurd silliness seems to go back and forth during the entire album. While they have super-pop songs on the album, songs like "Dreamin" are a direct callback to their original songs, with River's voice echoing over rhythm guitar and the chorus echo emanating from the rest of the band.
It's nice to see that Weezer is starting to share the spotlight, the entire band kind of gets their own song. Brian Bell (guitar) sings lead vocals on the song "Thought I Knew" , while Scott Shriner (bass) sings lead vocals on "Cold Dark World", Pat Wilson (drums) even takes over vocals for the song "Automatic".
When the final song "The Angel and the one" ends... you feel like you've just enjoyed a very worthwhile 40 minutes, and you can relisten to the CD and learn more thing about it, and enjoy it just as much.
While the album is very good, I'm hard pressed to say that it's not my favorite. It's a great album, but It feels like It's missing something. It feels like they waited all of those years to release a new record... and this is what they release. It's like... waiting two years to have sex with a really hot girl and then she turns out to be a guy.
All in all... A good album, lackluster and often seems like now that they've done it all... they just want their fucking paycheck.
Final Score: 7 Giraffes out of 10
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