The instrumentation on this album is one of the best I’ve ever heard. Shame it has to be British.

Brianstorm - 9
Teddy Picker - 9
D Is for Dangerous - 9
Balaclava - 9
Fluorescent Adolescent - 9
Only Ones Who Know - 7
Do Me a Favour - 9
This House Is a Circus - 7
If You Were There, Beware - 6
The Bad Thing - 7
Old Yellow Bricks - 8
505 - 10

Overall Score: 83
Favorite: 505
Least Favorite: If You Were There, Beware

So yeah, this band is really good. Thank you Silversun Pickups for introducing me to them. It was very much worth it.

Float - 8
0% - 8
Three - 10
Down My Life - 8
Knowing You - 8
Heavy Sleeper - 7
Footstep Misstep - 8
Courtesy - 9
Hiyeahi - 5
Bubble - 9
Everything We Do - 8

Overall Score: 80

Favorite: Three
Least Favorite: Hiyeahi

What the FUCK is this.

Absolutely bizarre. There are heartfelt ballads about divorce mixed in with unexplainable, harsh, ugly, experimental garbage. I think one of the songs is about poop (and that was one of the better ones). I have no idea how you could unironically enjoy this, but hey, I’m no expert. It’s just my opinion.

It’s Gonna Be A Long Night - 7
Zoloft - 6
Transdermal Celebration - 9
Among His Tribe - 7
So Many People In The Neighborhood - 3
Tried And True - ... read more

There are two really, really good songs on this album. They’re the first two. The rest of the album is the definition of mid.

Seven - 9
In Circles - 9
Song About An Angel - 8
Round - 7
47 - 8
The Blankets Were The Stairs - 7
Pheurton Skuerto - 7
Shadows - 8
48 - 7
Grendel - 7
Sometimes - 7

Overall Score: 76

Favorite: In Circles
Least Favorite: Pherton Skeurto

Beautiful, meaningful, ethereal music that always seems to hit. The up-tempo songs are generally better than the ballads, but don’t get me wrong, it’s all good.

I Still Do - 9
Dreams - 10
Sunday - 10
Pretty - 9
Waltzing Back - 9
Not Sorry - 9
Linger - 10
Wanted - 10
Still Can’t … - 8
I Will Always - 8
How - 8
Put Me Down - 8

Overall Score: 90

Favorite: Sunday
Least Favorite: I Will Always

It’s consistent, I’ll give it that. It’s good, and there are some standout moments, but, overall, there isn’t a lot that stands out to me.

Offline P.K. - 9
Concrete Seconds - 8
Boo - 8
BBtone - 8
Penelope - 9
Talby - 7
X.I.Y. - 8
Prog - 8
Your Sickness - 9
Seville - 8
West - 8
Tres - 7

Overall Score: 81

Favorite: Your Sickness
Least Favorite: Tres

Pinback is one of my favorite bands of all time, but they struggle with inconsistency. With some of my other favorite bands, songs I consider “skippable” are few and far between. Pinback has made some of my favorite songs of all time, but a lot of it I wouldn’t go back to. That’s why this album stands out so much to me. There isn’t much here I would ever want to skip.

Tripoli - 10
Hurley - 10
Charborg - 7
Chaos Engine - 7
Shag - 8
Loro - 9
Crutch - 10
Rousseau - ... read more

How is Indigo De Souza not a huge thing already? She’s a brilliant songwriter with such a distinct musical style. Plus, her music is damn good, even on a self produced first release. Bravo, Indigo De Souza, this is masterful.

How I Get Myself Killed - 8
Take Off Ur Pants - 7
Good Heart - 8
Smoke - 10
Sick in the Head - 6
What Are We Gonna Do Now - 10
Home Team - 8
Ghost - 8
The Sun Is Bad - 7
I Had To Get Out - 9

Overall Score: 81

Favorite: What Are We Gonna Do Now
Least Favorite: Sick ... read more

Did they just sample Lil Yachty. Or did Lil Yachty sample them?

She Looked Like Me! - 8
Killing Time - 8
True Blue Interlude - 8
Image - 10
Death & Romance - 9
Fear, Sex - 8
Vampire in the Corner - 9
Watching T.V. - 8
Tunnel Vision - 8
Love Is Everywhere - 8
Feeling Diskinserted? - N/A
That’s My Floor - 7
Cry for Me - 8
Angel on a Satellite - 9
The Ballad of Matt & Mica - 8

Overall Score: 83

Favorite: Image
Least Favorite: That’s My Floor

My girlfriend recommends me some decent music sometimes

Taste - 9
Please Please Please - 6
Good Graces - 5
Sharpest Tool - 8
Coincidence - 7
Bed Chem - 4
Espresso - 7
Dumb & Poetic - 5
Slim Pickins - 3
Juno - 8
Lie to Girls - 7
Don’t Smile - 7

Overall Score: 63

Favorite: Taste
Least Favorite: Slim Pickens

This album feels like the sound effect to an art museum .. or an all-boys boarding school … or something else upper class, White New Engladers enjoy. Maybe Bernie Sanders.

Mansard Roof - 9
A-Punk - 8
Oxford Comma - 8
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - 8
M79 - 8
Campus - 8
Bryn - 8
One (Blake’s Got A New Face) - 6
I Stand Corrected - 9
Walcott - 9
The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance - 8

Overall Score: 81

Favorite: I Stand Corrected
Least Favorite: One (Blake’s Got A New Face)

This album has no justification to be THIS BORING

Hero - 5
All the Good Ones - 6
The End of the Game - 7
I Need Some of That - 6
Beginning of the End - 8
Blue Dream - 6
1 More Hit - 6
Sheila Can Do It - 5
She Needs Me - 4
Precious Metal Girl - 5

Overall Score: 58

Favorite: Beginning of the End
Least Favorite: She Needs Me

Weezer’s Radiohead impression is not all that bad.

All My Favorite Songs - 9
Aloo Gobi - 7
Grapes Of Wrath - 6
Numbers - 8
Playing My Piano - 6
Mirror Image - 7
Screens - 7
Bird with a Broken Wing - 7
Dead Roses - 9
Everything Happens For A Reason - N/A
Here Comes the Rain - 8
La Brea Tar Pits - 8

Overall Score: 75

Favorite: Dead Roses
Least Favorite: Grapes Of Wrath

“This isn’t make believe”

No, Rivers, it’s way, way worse

Can’t Knock the Hustle - 3
Zombie Bastards - 3
High As A Kite - 7
Living In L.A. - 6
Piece Of Cake - 5
I’m Just Being Honest - 6
Too Many Thoughts In My Head - 6
The Prince Who Wanted Everything - 5
Byzantine - 3
California Snow - 7

Overall Score: 51

Favorite: High As A Kite
Least Favorite: Zombie Bastards

A collection of covers, ranging from downright offensive (Billie Jean) to arguably better than the original (Africa), with most falling in between; not bad, but nowhere near as good as the legendary original song.

Africa - 10
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - 8
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - 5
Take on Me - 6
Happy Together - 6
Paranoid - 6
Mr. Blue Sky - 6
No Scrubs - 7
Billie Jean - 3
Stand By Me - 7

Overall Score: 64

Favorite: Africa
Least Favorite: Billie Jean

My Weezer is best AJR

Mexican Fender - 6
Beach Boys - 6
Feels Like Summer - 6
Happy Hour - 5
Weekend Woman - 7
QB Blitz - 7
Sweet Mary - 8
Get Right - 7
La Mancha Screwjob - 6
Any Friend of Diane’s - 6

Overall Score: 64

Favorite: Sweet Mary
Least Favorite: Happy Hour

My Weezer is best Beach Boys

California Kids - 9
Wind In Our Sail - 8
Thank God for Girls - 8
(Girl We Got) A Good Thing - 9
Do You Wanna Get High? - 8
King Of The World - 8
Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori - 7
L.A. Girlz - 8
Jacked Up - 7
Endless Bummer - 9

Overall Score: 81

Favorite: California Kids
Least Favorite: Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori

Valhalla

Ain’t Got Nobody - 6
Back To The Shack - 7
Eulogy For A Rock Band - 7
Lonely Girl - 8
I’ve Had It Up To Here - 8
The British Are Coming - 8
Da Vinci - 7
Go Away - 8
Cleopatra - 9
Foolish Father - 8
I. The Waste Land - 8
II. Anonymous - 8
III. Return To Ithaka - 9

Overall Score: 78

Favorite: Cleopatra
Least Favorite: Ain’t Got Nobody

The bar was on the floor for this one, and it cleared it. Sadly, it’s the musical equivalent of white printer paper: bland, soulless, and inoffensive.

Memories - 5
Ruling Me - 6
Trainwrecks - 6
Unspoken - 7
Where’s My Sex? - 5
Run Away - 6
Hang On - 7
Smart Girls - 4
Brave New World - 7
Time Flies - 5

Overall Score: 58

Favorite: Unspoken
Least Favorite: Smart Girls

So, you’re telling me Weezer covered a Katy Perry record.

No! They wrote it themselves!

This is awful.

(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To - 7
I’m Your Daddy - 5
The Girl Got Hot - 3
Can’t Stop Partying - 4
Put Me Back Together - 7
Trippin’ Down The Freeway - 5
Love Is the Answer - 3
Let It All Hang Out - 5
In the Mall - 3
I Don’t Want to Let You Go - 6

Overall Score: 48

Favorite: Put Me Back Together
Least Favorite: Girl Got Hot