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Hurley wrestles with serious themes - heartbreak, nostalgia, busted and unrealized dreams; the kinds of things that songwriters usually write songs about when they're on the precipice of turning 40.
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It's a pleasure to report, then, that Hurley is a fine album.
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Hurley is a reminder of why we fell in love with Weezer in the first place--the power-pop anthems, grungy rock songs, the gawd-awful yet quirky lyrics--it's all here.
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It's got the charm and spark of the Weezer of old, and that's a quality you just can't fake.
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Cuomo doesn't suppress his emotion; he just prefers sentiment, but what he loves most of all is a pure pop song and Hurley offers up its fair share.
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Hurley's feet are firmly rooted in the present but this collection is, without doubt, the closest the band have come to recapturing their glory days.
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Hurley isn't perfect, but it's the best thing Weezer have done in quite some time, and that's all we can hope for-until the next Nirvana comes along, of course.
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Hurley, its eighth studio album, is a surprise, the group's strongest album in recent years.
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Weezer remains dedicated to amped up guitars, catchy melodies, and the idea that love, humor, and pain are what make great memories and wrinkles.
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As the band's first disc for Epitaph following a 15-year major-label run, the stripped-down Hurley mostly delivers what you'd expect.
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Rivers and his Weezer buddies are oddballs but finally they're our oddballs and Hurley more than makes up for sticking by their side through one of the rockiest relationships in recent indie rock history.
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Hurley proves that Rivers still has some gas left in the tank.
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The band's aims are more modest now: have fun, get people to sing along, share a common feeling or two. Hurley achieves those goals with something approaching dignity.
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As they grow older, Cuomo and his bandmates will never make a record that supplants their fans' fond Pinkerton-related memories-but a few more impassioned albums like Hurley might erase the sour aftertaste of several Raditudes.
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The song's stitched-together feel is also emblematic of an album that feels a bit rushed.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 66 out of 94
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Mixed: 21 out of 94
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Negative: 7 out of 94
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Sep 26, 2010
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Sep 17, 2010
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Oct 2, 2010