Weezer (Red Album)
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Weezer (Red Album)
Weezer (commonly known as the Red Album) is the sixth studio albumand third self-titled album by American rock band Weezer, released on June 3, 2008 by DGCand Interscope Records. Rick Rubin and Jacknife Lee both produced parts of the album, with the band producing a handful of tracks themselves. Like their 1994 debut, other band members contributed to songwriting. This is the first and, so far, the only Weezer album to feature lead vocals from all four band members. The album also features more musical experimentation in comparison to their previous efforts, especially shown in such songs as "Dreamin'", "The Angel and The One", and "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived". - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
This album relies on a high quantity of short-lived pretty good ideas to distract from a shortage of great ones.
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Consequence of Sound
This is a band poking fun at their surroundings: the fucked up recklessness of modern America, represented by the closest thing this world has to hell, Los Angeles.
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Rolling Stone
Cuomo deploys this excessin the service of a time-honored theme: the midlife crisis.
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IGN
Seven years from Blue to Green, seven years from Green to Red. The third era of Weezer stacks up, but it's a shaky tower indeed.
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AV Club
The breathtakingly stupid Weezer begs the question: Is this for real? Or are the over-processed hooks and lobotomized lyrics intentional self-parody?
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Sean is Here
Inconsistent. Probably better than Make Believe but what isn't?
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Slant Magazine
Filled with more smirking pop-culture references than an episode of Family Guy, Red Album is a sonic statement of ill intent.
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NME
‘The Red Album’ being a great Weezer album, is – for the first time ever – Cuomo’s invitation to his bandmates to sing and write songs too.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
The Red Album sounds like every one of Weezer’s misfires since The Green Album: a few songs that work and a whole slew that flounder completely.
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Prefix Magazine
But enough’s enough. Their sixth album — and the third one that’s self-titled (informally called the Red Album) — is forcing me, and many Weezer fans, I’m sure, to draw the line.
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Antiquiet
The Red Album completes Weezer’s homage to primary colors, and despite a shockingly bad collection of lyrics, it could also be their best release yet
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Common Sense Media
Quirky lyrics from inoffensive indie favorites.
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BBC
The Red Album is quintessentially theirs, but with a somewhat misguided twist
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No Ripcord
Basically, the Red Album is not as bad as you’ve heard nor as good as you might have hoped.
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