Everything Will Be Alright in the End
| Weezer
Everything Will Be Alright in the End
Everything Will Be Alright in the End is the ninth studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on October 7, 2014. It is Weezer's only album released by Republic Records, and the third produced by Ric Ocasek, who previously produced Weezer(1994) and Weezer (2001). - Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
Show All-
Pitchfork
The album is one of Weezer's most enjoyable in recent memory.
-
Rolling Stone
The spirit of reconciliation is strong on Everything Will Be Alright in the End.
-
Consequence of Sound
Everything Will Be Alright in the End doesn’t just transport us to Weezer’s younger days — it ushers us into their future. And for the first time in a while, it’s looking pretty bright.
-
NME
The US band get back on track as they're reunited with old producer.
-
Billboard
Everything Will Be Alright in the End may be Weezer's best album since 2002's Maladroit, but its competition within the band's catalog isn't exactly steep.
-
The Guardian
Fans may see this album as a return to form, but probably only in part.
-
Paste Magazine
Okay, so it’s not perfect. It’s not an album that has unskippable tracks, and save for a few emotional moments, I’m not going to be singing my heart back to the band on a lot of these songs.
-
Slant Magazine
Weezer’s Everything Will Be Alright in the End is an exultant “fuck you” to dashed expectations and the snarky wallow in past glories.
-
The Wrap
“Everything Will Be Alright in the End,” Weezer’s 10th studio album, is another collection of distorted guitar ballads that does not require a listener to skip past tracks to find the best, because they’re all potential fan favorites.
-
The Line of Best Fit
It may leave echoes in your head for days, but the play button untouched.
-
AV Club
If that all sounds like fan service, it is, but at least it’s damn effective fan service.
-
Drowned in Sound
In spite of its moments of charm, it’s a far cry from being either a fun retreat into 20 years ago, nor is it any indication that Weezer's reputation will be in better health 20 years from now.
-
The 405
When all is said and done, I think it's time we stopped wishing for the days of 1994 to return.
-
Diffuser
It’s self-referential and intentionally goofy but also laden with hot-rodding guitar and gargantuan hooks.
-
The Leaf
All in all, it is a very solid album and listening to it is highly recommended.
-
The Fire Note
I am not sure if the fun of listening to this album will stick with me as 2014 winds to an end but I can tell you that it has played very well with the last several days of warm weather we have had with the windows down.
-
Tiny Mix Tapes
After all, it should take more than an unsuccessful return-to-form record to shake one’s faith in any institution as perplexing, enduring, or sublime as Weezer.
-
The Know
Whether or not “Everything Will Be Alright In the End” sounds just fine or great to you will probably depend on your attachment to Weezer.
-
The Current
This album is Weezer at their best in ten years, and they know it.
-
DIY
It all sounds definitively Weezer in the best possible way.
-
Pretty Much Amazing
Everything Will Be Alright in the End is without a doubt better than anything the band has released in the past 10 years, but it’s not a great Weezer album.
-
930 Club
For the first time in quite a while, Weezer’s released an album that features no filler tracks
-
Power Pop News
Every one of these tracks is memorable from get-go with those irresistible melodies that Cuomo has such a knack for.
-
Exclaim!
Everything Will Be Alright in the End echoes much of Weezer's past, but the real selling point here is that, for the first time since Pinkerton, it feels like a coherent album as opposed to a loose collection of songs.
-
QRO Magazine
Everything Will Be Alright In the End may be the best Weezer record since they were in the shack.
-
Sonic Abuse
After a series of rather ordinary releases, some bordering on the mediocre, Weezer finally deliver an album that will repay fans for years of loyalty and the title appears to be a self-fulfilling prophecy: in the world of Weezer, everything will be alright in the end.
-
Cultured Vultures
In some parts, it’s amazing. In other parts, less so, but at all times it’s good.
-
bearded gentlemen music
I personally had a great time listening to it and it could quite easily sit in the ever growing Weezer back catalogue.
-
Spectrum Pulse
It’s a small step in the right direction, for sure, but after this, I’m personally anticipating a new Weezer album, and those are words I’d never thought I’d say again.
-
Alternative Press
He used his left brain—logic—to access his right brain—emotion—to create what might not be the best Weezer album, but most definitely is the perfect Weezer album, at least right now.
-
Under the Radar
As an exercise in nostalgia, it's perfectly accomplished.
-
PopMatters
Everything Will Be Alright in the End is not an album: it's an act of contrition that you can dance to.
-
popdose
Everything Will Be Alright In The End turns out to be quite alright itself.
-
Earbuddy
Everything else though, is melody-heavy, user-friendly, middle school frat rock.
-
the pop break
The album is a trip back to Weezer’s glory days, and to the sound that made them household names.
-
WBRU
Weezer is giving us the chance to love them again, and I am accepting the offer with an open heart and a smile.
-
Redbrick
The boys have delivered a musical gift with the solid rock album that is Everything Will Be Alright In The End.
-
McGill Tribune
The album seems to exist, however, as though the last decade and a half never happened, and it’s hard to care when the sound—bearing few traces of the irony that shows up on other Weezer albums—is refreshingly happy.
-
Rock Sound
Welcome back, Weezer – all is (almost) forgiven.
-
The Boston Globe
It’s also unquestionably the best Weezer album since 2001.
-
Justin the Librarian
EWBAITE proves that this band can, if they want to, make a really solid rock album.
-
Cryptic Rock
This album meshes together beautifully and gives both old and new fans alike a reason to let their hair down and bop along to the beat.
-
Gig Slutz
ALBUM REVIEW: Weezer ‘Everything Will Be Alright In The End’ Rating: Oh, Weezer. It’s been one hell of a journey following these guys for the past couple of decades. From the teenage angst ridden tunes packed into “The Blue Album” and Pinkerton, through the pop rock years of “The Green Album” and Make Believe to the down right ridiculous Raditude, there’s been very few dull moments in this band’s career. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing. On the one hand, the release of a new Weezer album is always an exciting affair. You can never quite tell whats going through the mind of River Cuomo and co. so there could literally be anything on an album. A genre spanning epic? Did that on ‘The Greatest Man That Ever Lived’, a disco-rap track featuring Lil Wayne? Did that on ‘Can’t Stop Partying’ (this probably falls into the “bad thing” category). On the other hand, there has been very little consistency of quality in the band’s output for some time now. Weezer are still stalked by the success of “Blue” and Pinkerton, and despite producing a string of hit singles in the following years, it can be argued they haven’t put a top album out since then. Harsh? Probably, but we’re talking about a band who tour around the Caribbean on a cruise ship. I think they’ll get over it. Anyway, I digress, we have a new Weezer album and it’s called ‘Everything Will Be Alright in The End‘ (EWBAITE). The band have done a string of interviews during the build up of its release, the message behind them being that they’re going back to their roots, back to what the hardcore fans fell in love with in the first place. A message epitomised in the first single, ‘Back To The Shack’… “Sorry guys I didn’t realise that I needed you so much, I thought I’d get a new audience, I forgot that disco sucks. / I ended up with nobody and I started feeling dumb, maybe I should play the lead guitar and Pat should play the drums “ Things start off promisingly enough, ‘Ain’t Got Nobody’ is vintage Weezer: Chugging riffs and a pop-tastic chorus combine to remind listeners exactly what this band is capable of when they’re on form. ‘I’ve Had it Up To Here’ delivers some swagger to proceedings, complete with indie-disco style guitar and flashes of falsetto vocals, whilst ‘The British Are Coming’ is the anthem the lads back in 1776 were waiting for, a rocked up ode to American independence. Alas, like their recent efforts it’s not all gold in the hills of EWBAITE. ‘Eulogy For A Rock Band’ is riff rock by numbers and ‘Go Away’ trundles on by without causing much of a stir. At the end of the first ten tracks we’re left with a better than average Weezer album, but things take a dramatic twist when we delve into what is known as ‘The Futurescope Trilogy’. Starting with ‘The Waste Land’, this is Weezer at their most flamboyant. Glam metal guitars fly around as if Guns N’ Roses had stepped in for a recording session. ‘Anonymous’ adds Elton John-esque piano to the mix, creating a number that could easily be featured on Broadway – I can almost see the show girls now. Finally we move into ‘Return to Ithacka’, the crescendo of ridiculousness to end both the trilogy and the album, after which you think to yourself, “what the hell did I just listen to!?” EWBAITE is an identity crisis unlike any this band has had in the past. By going back to their roots they’ve discovered with more evidence than ever that they’re not the same band they were 20 years ago, and whilst the majority of the songs on this album keep up with the charade that they really have harked back to the good ol’ days, all that pent up frustration and yearning for new ideas comes spilling out into the last three ludicrous tracks.
-
B-SIDES
If you’re a die-hard Weezer fan, Everything Will Be Alright In The End, will help you remember why.
-
Forge Press
The album has Weezer revamped like it’s the mid 90s with implications it can only get better for the band who aren’t ready to hang up their boots just yet.
-
Newsday
Greatness from across rock's spectrum.
-
fivecentsound
If resonant chords, slow to quick tempos, and rich instrumentals are your musical callings, then this album will not disappoint.
-
Stereogum
Everything Will Be Alright In The End more than redeems Rivers Cuomo.
-
Cleveland
Those instincts make "Everything Will Be Alright in the End" Weezer's best album in quite some time.
-
jukebox breakdown
Everything Will Be Alright In The End certainly does its best to make amends on many levels and to reunite an iconic, influential and still very relevant band with fans they may have abandoned along their somewhat strange, divisive journey through the 2000’s.
-
Spectrum Pulse
So look, I'm not going to say this album is better than The Blue Album or Pinkerton - it's not - but it's finally a sign that Weezer has managed to reinvigorate a formula that gave them so much success, staying power, and a diehard fanbase.
-
NZ Herald
If you enjoy the heavier end of Weezer's spectrum, Everything has plenty to please you.
-
Crescent Vale
Each of these songs have been far above par for what the band has produced in the last decade.
-
Record Collector Magazine
For the most part, this is no improvement on Weezer’s medicore output of the past decade.
-
The Connector
Although it’s a quirky and strange work, it goes without saying that the new album is definitely worth a listen.
-
The Five 10
Weezer have, after a decade, finally shown that they truly recognized what needed to be done about their musical path and are here to remedy the situation.
-
Highway 81 Revisited
All in all, it’s Weezer. And at the end of the day, that’s what everyone wants. Right?
-
Odyssey Media Group
Everything Will Be Alright in the End is a strong record that will surely draw new audiences and gain Weezer respect from the music world.
-
The Arts Desk
It's not that Everything Will Be Alright in the End is a particularly bad album, more that it's the latest in a series of disappointing ones.
-
The Highlander
Though it took them awhile, Weezer is at least to an extent back — it only took a self-fulfilling album title to show not just us, but themselves that.
-
Buffablog
Maybe everything really will be pretty good in the end.
-
Smooth Waves Music
For fans who have loved the band since they were young, or honestly any fan of good music in general will enjoy listening to this album.
-
Eric Mack Attacks
Everything Will Be Alright in the End may be the Weezer album that sets me on a path toward following them much more closely.
-
Control the Music
‘Everything Will Be Alright in the End’ is everything you want from a Weezer album – hooks, guitars and a big, fat scissor kick chorus to top it all off.
-
Owl Radio
Despite fairly simple words, “Everything Will Be Alright In The End” drops the hammer as Weezer hits the ground running. No doubt this album is worth a listen.
-
The Lantern
Weezer’s latest effort a breath of fresh air among recent duds.
Rate This Album and Leave Your Comments