I've been talking all this spring about the amazing number of new releases coming out from my favorite bands. Since January; Gungor, Chris Isaak, M. Ward, Brazzaville and now Weezer have dropped new tracks. Radiohead and Local Natives are also slated to release records soon. It has been a great year for music, at least for me. My faves don't usually all line up their releases at the same time.
April 1st, Weezer released The White Album. No April Fool's Joke. It's good stuff. The sound is very similar to last year's excellent Everything Will Be Alright in the End. Guess it should go without saying it's not on the Blue or Pinkerton level...but probably nothing ever will be and I've accepted that. Still, these most recent two albums have been their best in years. I've got a few tiers when it comes to Weezer albums...starting at the top...
The Incomparable Work of Genius: The Blue Album.
The Classic and Amazing (but not quite as good as Blue): Pinkerton
Really Great Stuff: Green, Maladroit
Excellent: EWBAE and White
Very Good: Red, Make Believe
I dig it even though I'm embarrassed to admit it and would never say so to hardcore Weezer fans: Raditude
Meh. Some good, some meh, mostly meh and some lame: Hurley, Death to False Metal
So yeah, I'd put The White Album somewhere in the middle. I particularly like King of the World and Endless Bummer. If you put the best one or two songs from each of their last five or six releases you'd have one super great album. Unfortunately too much of their stuff is hit or miss lately. But White really holds up pretty much all the way through. I dig it.
