For the past 15 years or so, Weezer has made truly awful music. It’s bad. So bad that the band’s sustained assault on quality and pleasure almost seems like a brilliant stunt. Like Rivers Cuomo is making a point about celebrity and pop vacuity and nostalgia. He’s a smart person. He knows he is a carton of skim milk who happens to play guitar. He is in on whatever the joke might be. But there are no hidden depths here. It is simply bad art. Don’t overthink it. Weezer definitely isn’t.

by Chris Stamm