I’ve just finished listening, for the first time, to the new Weezer album. First impression is a certain relief that every track is listenable. The last album had three good-too-great songs, but I cannot bear to listen to any other track on it. That was a first for me with any Weezer album.
Anyway, there was something about those songs that failed (for me) that I recognize in some of the songs on this album. It’s as if Cuomo had some concepts for a change in song-writing, and on Make Believe he hadn’t worked it through properly, and now he’s managed to make it function.
There is a certain amount of bombast in the first couple of songs here, but I like it. It reminds me a line from a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion song: “This is the part of the record where I’d like everybody to throw their hands in the air . . . and kiss my ass, ’cause your girlfriend still loves me.” It brings the rock.
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