Weezer White Album

Despite 2014's EWBAITE being an awesome surprise, I still eyed this release nervously. As we all know, the quality of weezer is wildly unpredictable, and despite them having one or two solid songs on Hurley, raditude, Red, and make believe( Beverly Hills not being one of the solids), each album has been incohesive, disjointed, and at its low points, embarrassing messes. EWBAITE was a great surprise. The musicianship was there, the shallowness was replaced with better lyrics, and most importantly it felt like a cohesive, complete body of work. It didn't feel half baked. So here we have the white album. A Couple of listens through, I can say that this album is their strongest since Pinkerton. The melodies, layered with guitars, moog like effects, and vocals are fantastic. The production value is slick but doesn't detract from the grittiness of tracks like "Do you wanna get high" or the acoustic sound of "endless bummer". The guitar feedback opening to "L.A. Girlz" is vintage Weezer accompanied with a biting guitar solo. Girl we got a good thing is catchy and instrumentally layered (listen to it on studio headphones), and it's nice to hear River's break out the falsetto for "All Jacked Up" This is a great album. Folks, go out and buy this album. Show Rivers and co. This is the Weezer sound we love and want more of. =w=

Great album and great quality

Perfect album, and CD is in perfect condition. :)

When Weezer released Everything Will Be Alright in the End back in 2014, I know I wasn't the only fan who breathed a massive sigh of relief. After years of puzzling, strange and (in some cases) downright embarrassing albums, it seemed they had finally found their footing again and were ready to reclaim their place as one of the best pop/rock bands out there. While I was thrilled with that record, it also caused me a bit of trepidation. Was it a fluke? Could Weezer really remain consistent and maintain their winning streak? With the White Album, the band's fourth self-titled release, it's safe to say that my fears have been put to rest. Weezer is officially back---and this time they're bringing summer with them. Right off the bat we're treated to "California Kids", complete with big guitars, driving drums and those Weezer melodies we've come to know and love so well. The Beach Boys are a major influence on this LP and you'll hear it in several tracks, most notably "Wind in Our Sail" and "(Girl We Got A) Good Thing", which floats so effortlessly into your ears that you can't help but smile and sing along. Other tunes like "King of the World" and "Summertime Elaine and Drunk Dori" are slices of vintage Weezer, taking you on a catchy ride in about three minutes. Despite its stupid title, "L.A. Girlz" manages to deliver the bright pop power we've come to know and love from the band. There's also some subtle experimentation thrown in, albeit in very conservative measures. The dark and brooding "Do You Wanna Get High?" is a standout, its ominous chords building an atmosphere that Make Believe's "We Are All on Drugs" desperately needed. It feels like a Pinkerton b-side and that alone puts it near the top of my list. "Jacked Up" is driven by a bouncy piano and quirky melody that gets better with every listen. The pensive, building closer "Endless Bummer" is beautiful, with only "Thank God for Girls" being the album's weak spot. It's not terrible but lyrically it feels way too silly and forced to be much more than a curiosity. Cuomo's lyrics aren't as strong here as they were on the previous album, though they're still far better what what we got on albums like Raditude and Hurley. As the weather warms up and the flowers bloom, it's wonderful to have a new Weezer album as the soundtrack. It's a perfect companion to their previous colored records and a bright sign that Weezer truly has returned to form. Those of us in the mid-west probably won't see a beach this summer...thankfully Weezer is back to help dull that pain

Weezer has come through with a good one. I too was a little hesitant with a early singles, but listening to the whole album gives me a new appreciation for them. The whole album fits together very nicely. It will be a great summer treat for me and my family.

The white album is so diverse, and brings back their 90s sound. It’s a magnificent album that anyone who loves 90s weezer needs to hear.

I love this album! I bought it when it first came out and just started collecting records and this was one of the first I bought.

Excelente todo Tiempo Calidad del disco

After what feels like an insanely long release run-up (since the surprise release of “Thank God For Girls” way back in November 2015), April 1st has finally come! I’ve tried not to listen too much to the 5 tracks that have been released, and even resisted searching out a stream after the record leaked this week. A Weezer fan might be wary of a new album coming less than 18 months after the excellent EWBAITE. Sure, Rivers is a prolific songwriter with a huge back-catalogue of ideas to dip into, but historically, that kind of close release schedule hasn’t necessarily guaranteed a well rounded Weezer album. Meanwhile, if a casual listener were simply going by the titles of the 5 pre-releases (“Thank God For Girls”, “Do You Want To Get High”, “King Of The World”, “California Kids” and “L.A.Girlz”) they may not put too much hope in an album of much depth or maturity. Thankfully beyond the quick turnaround and the (surely, tongue in cheek?) titles, “White Album” is a solid, finely crafted pop-rock album that sits well in 2016 and is jam-packed with heavy guitars, memorable melodies, and killer choruses. Building on the forward momentum gained from EWBAITE, the record is different in both tone and subject matter and is all the better for that - Weezer are no longer just reinventing the wheel - while they have one of the most recognisable sounds in rock they are once again pushing creative boundaries, taking risks and evidently having great fun doing it. Here they have worked hard at developing awesome harmonies and varied arrangements - no-one could argue that they have perfected the art of masterful pop songwriting - “White” is the sort of album that critics may well be dismissive of but to make a record of such instant accessibility and deceptive simplicity it is a hugely difficult feat to pull off without genuine skill and imagination. Besides all of that, happily, the album simply rocks from start to finish - there’s a solid, straight up pace that permeates almost every track. I think a lot of this is down to Pat, who has to be one of my favourite rock drummers ever. He adds a creative combination of funk and groove to verses, delivers some nimble stick trickery (check “King of The World” at 1:30) without being showy, and then isn’t afraid to play a straight up, fist pumping rhythm over a chorus. HIs kit sounds like perfection too - that snare! Lyrically, Rivers is on fine form and I love the stream of consciousness delivery in “TGFG” and “King Of The World”. There’s humour (“KumByYah makes me get violent!”), introspection, joyous celebration and of course some knowingly goofy romantic declarations and confessions. “Jacked Up” is probably my favourite of the ‘new’ tracks. It sees Rivers continue to push his voice, recalling the falsetto “I’ve Had It Up To Here” from EWBAITE and also continues that album’s use of wider instrumentation (in this case, piano) to great effect. “White” is very much a beach/summer album, with a distinct and intentional Beach Boys vibe. It’s not a gimmick - after all it’s been there since “Holiday” and “Surf Wax America” via “Island in the Sun”, and you don’t reference the Beach Boys as your inspiration if you’re not confident that the end result has done your heroes justice. It’s there in the melodic backing vocal arrangements of “California Kids”, the reverb-y guitar tones, the creative chord changes, the lyrical motifs of sunshine, dreamy summer imagery (“Wind In Our Sail”) and youthful romance (“(Girl We Got A) Good Thing”), and of course the cover art) but no more is this evident musically than in closing track “Endless Bummer”, a melancholy 3 minutes of acoustic reminiscence of lost summer love, delivered with a knowing wink, which bursts into a minute of frantic riffing, feedback (yes, it’s back!) crashing drums and driving bass, fading out to the sounds of the coast. “White” is pure and perfect Weezer distilled in to 35 minutes. In tone it’s closest to “Green” but the overall result is so much more satisfying than any simple comparison to the past can imply. The fact is, Rivers and the boys are still able to deliver. The narrative of the band’s musical highs and lows is a dramatic one in itself, but it’s so satisfying to see them come back at the top of their game, and they are proving more than able of breaking free from the shadow of the tiresome “not as good as Pinkerton” conversation. This is Weezer NOW, and it’s brilliant. I can safely say that this is, without a doubt, the second best White Album ever made.

Nach dem großartigen Vorgänger weiß auch das "Weiße Album" fast über die komplette Laufzeit zu überzeugen. Trotz der immer wieder durchscheinenden Melancholie präsentieren sich Weezer hier catchy und, an Artwork und Grundgedanke des Albums anknüpfend, strandtauglich wie schon lange nicht. Am wenigsten überzeugend erscheinen nach zwei Hördurchgängen die etwas stumpfe Single "Thank God For Girls" und das zumindest auf den ersten Blick ungewohnte "Jacked Up" (Rivers mit Falsetto-Gesang). Highlights könnten "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" sowie das pinkertoneske "Do You Wanna Get High?" sein. Doch auch die restlichen sechs Tracks sollten jedem Fan ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zaubern. Der mit "Hurley" 2010 begonnene Aufwärtstrend wird hier ungebremst fortgesetzt.

正直、聴きはじめは前作ほどの衝撃はありませんでした。 しかし、数日間聴きこむともうどハマりしました。出勤前に、休憩時に、車中でと、毎日聴いています。 感覚的に言えば、前作は一発聴いただけで虜になるブルーアルバムの様な作品でしたが、今作はピンカートンの様なスルメ感があります。 個人的にお気に入りはKing Of The World、L.A. Girlzですね。 特に今作は代表曲のMVが繋がっていて面白いです。

Love the album. Pleased with the care of packaging and swiftness of delivery.

Llegó en perfecto estado, en tiempo, el disco de buena calidad, con letras de las canciones y cupón para descarga digital. Muy recomendable.