Teal
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Teal
Weezer, also known as the Teal Album, is the twelfth studio album by the American rock band Weezer, and is composed of cover songs. It was released digitally on January 24, 2019 through Crush Music and Atlantic Records, with a retail release set for March 8. -Wikipedia
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Dead Press
What they have succeeded at, however, is celebrating a bunch of classic songs that everyone knows and loves but may have slipped to the back of their minds, thereby bringing them back into the spotlight and giving some recognition to a wide array of artists. Truly remarkable in its arrangement and its delivery
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Consequence of Sound
Rivers Cuomo keeps last year's party alive with even more crowd-pleasers
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The Guardian University of California San Diego
the album’s silly yet respectable vibe makes it so that it sounds like a professional version of a group of friends singing in the car
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Vulture
The fun in listening to Teal, where it can be found, is in seeing just how far these guys are willing to go in faithfully re-creating sounds that seem outside their wheelhouse, and watching them hit all the notes.
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Immortal Reviews
In The Teal Album, Weezer celebrate music and life by exploring some of the classics that have come to define parts of their lives. It’s hard to not enjoy this record.
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The Diamondback
The Teal Album is a perfectly OK album. Weezer’s devoted fan base isn’t going anywhere. But the album wasn’t anything special.
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NME
An amuse-bouche for the band’s upcoming ‘The Black Album’, this kitsch covers collection is respectful enough to rouse any struggling family gathering, but knowing enough to amuse those in on the joke
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Medium
Slickly produced, polished covers for hardcore fans of the band to dig into, but really: Who was asking for this?
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The Young Folks
When the album’s seemingly endless 36 minutes and 18 seconds are up, the listener can’t help but feel they’ve been pranked.
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4 out of 5
The reality is that this is a painfully average release from a band that has made some truly awful records, as well as a giant advertisement for their next album.
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Now Toronto
It doesn’t even pass as a joke album – they’re just straight-ahead paint-by-numbers covers, like something a wedding band might play.
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Glide Magazine
The lifelessness of the covers ensures that it has a shelf life that isn’t much longer than your average meme.
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New Zealand Herald
The record's enjoyable in the same way a pub's covers band is enjoyable after you've downed a few drinks.
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Drowned in Sound
There’s little doubt that The Teal Album is something of an indulgence, but it would be churlish to argue that it’s one Weezer haven’t earned on the basis of sheer persistency if nothing else.
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Thrill List
he Teal Album' Is the Most Irritatingly Bad Music Weezer Has Recorded in Years
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Beat
it’s a carefree album with a staggering amount of quality. It’s evident that effort has been put in to do every single song justice, and as mentioned before, is an emphatic return to form that will help build hype for their upcoming release.
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Spill Magazine
Weezer delivers an outright hilarious choice of ten faithfully-executed classics for an overall colourful experience. Teal is the colour of a band having pure, shameless fun.
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All Music
Cuomo has created a hyper-saturated, uncanny valley, where nothing seems quite real. An ideal album for the internet, in other words
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Justin the Librarian
Surpriseivers Cuomo and his gang build an aural time machine constructed of cringe worthy karaoke-esque covers to hype the release of another album
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Bernard Zuel
Nothing that says “I’d never expect to hear this song done like this”; nothing that says “when exposed/explored this way it makes me see/appreciate this song for the first time”; nothing that says “I thought I knew the best songs from [insert name here] but here’s a revelation I must go back and discover”; nothing even that says “well we’re being ironic”. Nothing that says “this is so Weezer”.
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The Hilltopper
Overall the product is a fantastic release that offers something for fans of Weezer in particular.
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Distorted Sound
WEEZER are enjoying themselves, and the joy is quite simply infectious.
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KLSU 91.1FM
Even if I were a Weezer fan I don’t think I would return to anything on this album other than for the novelty of playing the Weezer cover of No Scrubs to annoy my friends.
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Icon Fetch
I know, it’s supposed to be a joke. But, it’s not funny.
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Secret Meeting
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.” and the Teal album is a wonderfully fun, yet completely useless piece of art.
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The Clarion
If you like Weezer or haven’t heard some of these songs before, you’ll find something to like here. Otherwise, don’t waste your time on this one.
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The Sound Board Reviews
when it’s so devoid of meaningful substance or anything to set this slew of covers apart from the originals in any capacity, it doesn’t really deserve much praise either
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Mortal Vibrations
A few of the crisper-sounding pop tracks are worth a listen here but the album is nothing special.
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Northern Transmissions
The Teal Album is an amusing surprise for Weezer to drop, but it also feels like a misuse of their charm packaged into a cash-grab.
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ESSM
This is one of the best things Weezer has done for many years.
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The Wee Review
A cheesy covers album no-one asked for. Do you snigger or pat them on the back? Probably both.
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The Main Edge
They’re just playing songs that they like with their friends – and that’s enough.
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Noisey
The Teal Album is fun.
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Mix 108
Weezer has a very unique pop rock sound that fits so well with these songs even though three of them were sung by a duet backed by a band.
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Viberant
Now of course I know this album is basically entirely tongue in cheek and just a veteran band having a bit of fun; but when the tongue in cheek fun comes in the form of sounding like pissed up karaoke singers and a bunch of dudes who played Rock Band once and thought they could make it as a band; there is going to be immediate cause for concern.
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Stars and Scars
So, there you have it. I have gained more respect for Weezer after listening to The Teal Album.
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Upside Down Shark
Do yourself a favour and listen to this album, it is definitely a “greater than the sum of it parts” scenario.
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Star 2
As far as Weezer albums go, this is hardly one of its better albums, but hey, what do you expect from a record that was born from an Internet meme?
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Pelican Magazine
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe this is just a huge joke that I just don’t get. Maybe Weezer know how ridiculous all of this sounds and are doing a weird acrobatic act between irony and sincerity.
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Mystic Sons
The 'Teal' album is a charming and wonderful experience to enjoy
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Comic Book Misfit
A near perfect offering from one of Alternative Rock’s best bands.
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