Weezer White album

"The White Album accomplishes a couple of different things. It will satisfy the band's longtime fans that are still weary (and wary) from a decade of really dubious music from the band. But it also manages to add some new wrinkles to Weezer's overall sound. They've never used this much piano before, and Cuomo very effectively incorporates those requisite Beach Boys influences into the band's standard power-pop sound. Also, by returning to their self-imposed 10-song limit, the band has largely eliminated any true clunkers this time around".

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"This is Weezer's version of Southern California, one where the girls aren't bedecked in bikinis and where alienation sometimes seems comforting, maybe because their "Endless Bummer" is consciously fleeting, a sweet, sad coda to an album devoted to all the good times that can be had under the sun".

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"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 ... It's appropriate, then, that the band have selected white-a color traditionally associated with purity and renewal-as the palette for their fourth self-titled album, trumpeted yet again as a return to form. Ostensibly, all is forgiven, and we can resume our march further and further away from Weezer's awful '00s with renewed spirits. Unfortunately, the White album proves that some curses are damn hard to break".

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