Weezer (White Album)
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Weezer (White Album)
Weezer, also known as the White Album, is the tenth studio album and fourth self-titled album by American rock band Weezer, released on April 1, 2016. The album marks their first produced by Jake Sinclair. It is the first release through Crush Music and was distributed by Atlantic Records. - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Weezer's fourth self-titled record, trumpeted as a return to form just like 2014's Everything Will Be All Right in the End, is also their first concept album since Pinkerton.
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SPIN
The world has turned and left Weezer back here, and as it turns out, it was well worth the wait.
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Rolling Stone
On their fourth self-titled album, Weezer reimagine their classic sound.
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AV Club
With the group’s 10th album, known somewhat audaciously as The White Album, Weezer’s return to form is real.
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Spill Magazine
What has been created here is the perfect, summer road trip record.
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The Line of Best Fit
On their fourth self-titled album, Weezer finally realise there’s no shame in being themselves.
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The Atlantic
The rock band’s 10th full-length recaptures their early sound while sharpening their underrated powerful message.
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Diffuser
Perhaps it’s time to stop expecting Weezer to recapture their ’90s magic, and just be happy with what we already have.
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NME
The LA band come close to recapturing their ’90s heyday on a beach-party album about girls and rollerblading.
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PopMatters
Weezer's long-awaited return to form continues with a loose concept album about California, complete with the requisite Beach Boys influences.
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Drowned in Sound
This is a unique addition to Weezer’s discography that sees them preparing for the future, however bleak and overwhelming it might seem.
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Exclaim!
Deep in these songs are distinct glimmers of the band's former greatness, making The White Album another positive step forward after 2014's actually-kinda-decent Everything Will Be Alright in the End.
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Entertainment Weekly
White Album is another Weezer record with a few contenders for a killer playlist—and it also offers a glimmer of hope that yet another masterpiece is within their reach.
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DIY Magazine
Life-changing? Perhaps not. Life-affirming, on the other hand? You betcha.
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Under the Radar Magazine
White Album-era Weezer are the most noteworthy.
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UWM Post
The White Album is the first album since Pinkerton that feels like exactly what they sincerely want to write. It’s not pathetic pandering pop, and it’s not ridiculously repentant rock. It’s Weezer, and it turns out that’s all we listeners ever needed.
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The Daily
With a Southern Californian feel and excellent energy, “Weezer (The White Album)” is a perfect soundtrack for the summer.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Well, of the 10 songs on the album, the three credited solely to Cuomo fare worst.
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The 405
The sad truth is that Weezer won't make a genuinely special record again as long as they remain influenced by the sanitized polish of their post-millennium material.
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Consequence of Sound
A couple of terrible alt singles to anchor a collection of vintage melodies is a worthy sacrifice.
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XS Noise
The White Album is the saving grace we all needed and it tops everything the band released throughout the 2000s something shocking.
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Gigwise
Yet, certainly to fans’ delight, the album as a whole is much more sun-kissed and packed full of Brian Wilson-type pleasantries and major melodies.
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All Music
Drums and guitars thunder, harmonies cascade, and there are surprises that add color without being showy.
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music OMH
The White Album is further proof that there is still life in the old dog yet.
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No Ripcord
It instantly becomes Weezer’s most immediately enjoyable work ye
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The Young Folks
Sure it may have taken them over 20 years to see the light, but they get that they don’t need to be anyone else but Weezer.
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Sputnik Music
Rockin’ out like it’s ’94.
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TRANSISTOR
Weezer are back and better than ever.
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Spectrum Culture
Still, despite its faults, The White Album is a solid piece of work from a band that’s clearly comfortable making music again.
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The Fire Note
This is the album for your summer vacation!
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Impact 89 FM
The White Album is a rebirth that could lead the band into a new sound.
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The Pioneer Log
This output is nothing to the tremendous success of the ‘90s, but it gives me hope.
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Chorus
With The White Album, Weezer solidify their place as a more-than-capable modern pop-rock band, and if that means as much to you as it does to me, we’re left with hope that Rivers and co. will continue to grace us with as many sonic experiments as they have left in their KISS-worshipping bodies.
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Alternative Addiction
Weezer’s hooks are far more rock than pop-centric and instead of this album being about reclaiming who you once were – it’s about being comfortable with who you are.
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The Current
The album showed off Cuomo's ability to write hook-driven rock songs absent of lyrical clichés.
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Audio Sprawl
While the the apologetic fanservice of Everything Will Be Alright in the End would have worked as the perfect conclusion to Weezer, Weezer (The White Album) makes it clear that Weezer have a future now.
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Immortal Reviews
Weezer’s new record shows that they are still champions of their craft.
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Cultured Vultures
This, finally, is the Weezer album we’ve all been waiting for, and the one we all deserve.
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Magnet Magazine
The White Album is the cherry on top of a quadruple-scoop shit sundae. This album is brown.
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#Tealcheese
All in all, The White Album is a solid release for Weezer.
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Justin the Librarian
Overall, “The White Album” is a really solid and well crafted set of 10 pop rock songs from a band that excels at giving us albums that can make you smile and sing along.
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Monsters and Critics
Thankfully, the off-kilter lyrics, underlying sarcasm, consistency of the songs and careful attention to making a cohesive whole are enough to keep Weezer’s “White Album” from being too cringe-y.
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The Odyssey Online
Besides that pretentious interpretation, the work is play; it's fun. So give it a listen-through and believe in the power of sunlight!
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Basementality Media
Fortunately, the biggest reveal with The White Album is how effortlessly a Weezer record it is, and it is that kind of re-discovery which will ultimately place it snugly within the band’s discography.
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Dying Scene
he White Album is a good album, and it will likely wind up being your fourth or fifth favorite Weezer album, depending on how you feel about Maladroit.
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Cryptic Rock
Although the songs are seemingly simple, the record is actually dense with sound, with its sweeping guitars and over-dubbed vocals.
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Spectrum Pulse
I'm sorry, this is a step back and a step down, especially when the melodic hooks aren't given the same punch or emphasis beyond the vocal line.
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The Filtered Lens
From the hip “California Kids” to the surprisingly forlorn ballad “Endless Bummer,” Weezer have provided a solid set of songs that could end up going down as one of their better collections.
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Punk News
The White Album is a perfect Weezer album easily consumed in its 35 minute run time.
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A Robot Cat Goes...
While there were definitely some missteps along the way, Weezer (White Album) does a great job showing the world was Weezer is, and always has been, all about.
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Deffenblog
The White Album is more than just redemption, it’s a masterful pop-rock classic in its own right.
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Bandwagon
It's not hard to say that this is Weezer at their most natural and self-assured since The Blue Album, and also most sonically-gratifying since Pinkerton.
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Rock Sound
Fans and newcomers alike will find much to enjoy here, and after all this time, that’s no mean feat.
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Bored and Dangerous
White is 34 minutes of a band rewarding those old fans for sticking around, while staying vibrant, engaged and in touch with the what the world has become, and their place in it.
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Music and Riots
For a band that is been together for 24 years, their ability to progress and adjust with time has never failed. Without a hint of doubt, The White Album will shape and mold the pop rock world in years to come.
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mxdwn
The White Album hits you with track after track of catchy songs. Weezer came full circle bringing it back to the basics
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Daily Emerald
The White Album has made it socially acceptable to call oneself a modern Weezer fan.
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stars and celebs
Decades in and Weezer have put out the White Album in the best way possible: a powerfully compact set, spread across 10 tracks that pack a punch.
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Punktastic
If you’re going to return to form, there are fewer finer ways to do so than with an album this perfectly formed.
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The Soundboard Reviews
First impressions of this album may be that the ten songs sound too similar to actually enjoy after a while, but play it on repeat and they slowly start to differentiate.
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Tones OF HOME
I am well fitted to say, there’s never been a better time to jump back into them.
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