Everything Will Be Alright in the End

Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End
Critic Score
Based on 38 reviews
2014 Ratings: #671 / 1042
User Score
2014 Rank: #262
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Alternative Press

He used his left brain—logic—to access his right brain—emotion—to create what might not be the best Weezer album, but most definitely is the perfect Weezer album, at least right now.

100
Kerrang!
It's just an album of bona fide, polished, often odd, perfect pop-rock.
91
Consequence of Sound

In revisiting those times, in trying to get back in touch with that man, he and the rest of Weezer have created something that’s completely unique to their catalog, a record that tries its damnedest to feel alienated by the conflicts of the past, but discovers that it’s actually at peace with them.

80
Rolling Stone

The tracks devoted to Weezer's bond with their listeners are the most tormented and theatrical, as if Cuomo and Co. stitched together their own American Idiot.

80
DIY

In short, it sounds like Weezer. Those magic chord changes, the wiry guitar licks, Rivers Cuomo’s awkward, faltering vocals – these may be brand new songs, but they’re all so immediately familiar that, as the title may suggest, they create one almighty aural comfort blanket. 

80
AllMusic

There's a sense that Weezer made another record of massive, hooky rock not only because that's what the fans want but because they know it's what they do best.

75
A.V. Club

While the record is first and foremost concerned with winning back the faithful, in its most abandon-free moments Everything forgets it’s a return-to-roots album and takes some exciting leaps.

74
Sputnikmusic

Rivers' lyrics are just as bad as they've always been, the band's sense of pop-song structure is still the backbone of every track, but that doesn't matter when everyone is having fun.

73
Paste

While the tones of their youth can be really, really difficult to recreate—EWBAITE shows that they can still be pretty good, too.

70
NME

It’s no ‘Pinkerton’, but Weezer, finally, are back on track.

70
Under the Radar
Weezer’s fans may be 20 years older now, but this is the band’s best album since the turn of the millennium. As an exercise in nostalgia, it’s perfectly accomplished.
70
FLOOD Magazine

With Everything Will Be Alright in the End, Weezer has brought back something that’s been missing from their discography for a long time: a solid collection of songs.

70
PopMatters

Ultimately, there will be scores of fans that will say this is the best Weezer album in years, but the truth is much deeper than that: even with its flaws, this is easily the best album Weezer has released in over a decade.

70
The Needle Drop
Weezer writes some of its best--and worst--songs in years.
70
Slant Magazine
These final songs are, like the rest of the album, an exultant “fuck you” to dashed expectations and the snarky wallow in past glories consistent with a band too content to watch most of its career in the rearview mirror.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Once again, Rivers Cuomo is his own best critic.
65
Pitchfork

Everything Will Be Alright in the End doesn’t set a new benchmark for Weezer, but hopefully it can go lengths to ridding them of the ridiculously unfair catch-22 they’ve faced.

60
Spectrum Culture

This is the sort of album that’s easy to overpraise, if only because of the depths Weezer have reached over the past few years, so let me be clear: Everything Will Be Alright in the End is not as good as Weezer’s first two albums.

60
Evening Standard
Dear old Weezer pump out their ninth studio album, and I’m still not sure quite why they exist.
60
The Guardian
Fans may see this album as a return to form, but probably only in part.
60
Billboard
'Everything Will Be Alright in the End' may be Weezer's best album since 2002's 'Maladroit,' but its competition within the band's catalog isn't exactly steep.
60
Exclaim!

Everything Will Be Alright in the End echoes much of Weezer's past, but the real selling point here is that, for the first time since Pinkerton, it feels like a coherent album as opposed to a loose collection of songs. 

60
The Skinny

EWBAITE chugs hard and whines with its heart on its sleeve, and while they’re longer in tooth, the unstoppable Weezer still say it like it is.

60
musicOMH

While Cuomo might be frustratingly stuck in himself, Everything Will Be Alright In The End shows that he’s taking the first trepidatious steps into an earnest reflection on what it’s taken to be the man he’s become.

60
Tiny Mix Tapes

The most passable =W= moments on EWBAITE are also those that are embarrassing enough to punch holes in the teenage bedroom wall that is your faith. But Weezer are embarrassing; they’ve always been embarrassing. What they’ve rarely been is dull, which is precisely what these canny imitations are.

60
Drowned in Sound

In spite of its moments of charm, it’s a far cry from being either a fun retreat into 20 years ago, nor is it any indication that Weezer's reputation will be in better health 20 years from now.

58
Pretty Much Amazing

Everything Will Be Alright in the End is without a doubt better than anything the band has released in the past 10 years, but it’s not a great Weezer album – not by a stretch. 

55
The 405

In the End still has its fair share of the innocuous, ordinary, Weezer-by-numbers stuff that has turned people away. Weezer-by-numbers can still produce satisfactory pop, but it's hard to find complete consistency with it.

50
The Line of Best Fit

Overall this record feels like a pocket in time and the breeze of nostalgia is welcome in parts but is wholly unsatisfying.

40
The Arts Desk

It's not that Everything Will Be Alright in the End is a particularly bad album, more that it's the latest in a series of disappointing ones.

40
Record Collector

For the most part, this is no improvement on Weezer’s medicore output of the past decade.

20
Crack Magazine
For now everything is just an embarrassing, self-deprecating mess that’s crying itself to sleep over a career that’s maintained about as much forward trajectory as a wingless aeroplane.
Geem
70

Reject humanity, return to Ithaka.

ImpalaLT
82

Holy shit! A modern Weezer record I actually like!

They do the same power pop sound they’ve been doing since 2001, and they polish that sound up like a rag and Windex on a dirty mirror. Unlike most of their previous projects, this one feels much more cohesive than albums like Make Believe or Raditude.

They start maturing as songwriters in this album, getting rid of 75% of the cringe they had from 2005 to 2011. They start to become less and less of a joke band when every single song on ... read more

Cyiniz
70

I did it, I finished Weezer's discography. Well, that was quite interesting. A lot of their output was either just mid, straight up bad, or boring. The great albums they put out like White and OK Human were near amazing and their stuff like Raditude and Make Believe being utter garbage. With my previous album listens, Red being quite mixed having a couple bangers but mostly sleepers, Hurley also suffering from similar problems, and their SZNZ eps which felt quite inconsistent, the majority of ... read more

Booloon
90

This is a great album on it's own sure. But in the wider context of Weezer and there output before hand, this is amazing. Nothing much to say. Great guitar. Actually good lyrics and a 3 song ending that is perfect.

Favourite songs: Futerscope Trilogy, Ain't got nobody, Eulogy for a Rock band
Least favourite: Cleopatra

AmpharosNewMain
75

i’ve been listening to the whole weezer catalog for the first time and in order - this album is such a victory lap

mawtaw
NR

the bri ish are coming

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Added on: July 9, 2014