As a fearless thought leader named Todd once argued, Weezer have had a far more interesting career than fair-weather fans who stopped listening after their first two albums realize. It’s been a turbulent ride through beautiful highs and brutal lows — sometimes within the same song, as on 2022’s wildly uneven SZNZ EP series. It’s not always been fun, but it’s certainly been interesting.
The missing ingredient, even throughout Weezer’s best post-millennium moments, has been the production. Increasingly, it sounds like frontman Rivers Cuomo makes albums sitting in front of a laptop with his guitar plugged directly into the interface with an amp sim in his DAW. Heavier rock material like 2021’s Van Weezer and the following year’s SZNZ: Summer has never hit quite…

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