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- Summary: The 14th full-length studio release for the alternative rock band led by Rivers Cuomo was produced by Jake Sinclair.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Power Pop, Pop Punk
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Positive: 16 out of 21
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Mixed: 5 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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Classic Rock MagazineMar 2, 2021An unlikely masterpiece. [Apr 2021, p.89]
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Jan 28, 2021The album feels like a departure: with its soft orchestral balm and sweet melancholic undertow, OK Human offers a singular, complete listening experience unlike anything else in their catalog.
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Feb 1, 2021OK Human is an oddity and a warm digital hug; it's Weezer reacting to an endless, nerve-shredding, social-life-destroying period of isolation the way only Weezer can, drawing further inwards to themselves but somehow inviting us along for the ride.
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Jan 28, 2021It’s solid, in other words—which isn’t damning with faint praise, rather affirming that Weezer is nailing this material. It’s in the slower, more balladry-driven songs that OK Human (the latest in a long line of stupid reference-heavy album titles, this time nodding at Radiohead’s classic) finds its openly beating heart.
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Feb 2, 2021It’s the same melodies and patterns as the group have long favoured, but even the potentially cringeworthy ‘Screens’ (a song about, of course, how we’re all glued to them) barely raises a shrug when surrounded by such luscious, bombastic sounds. By focusing on minutiae, too, what is ostensibly a lockdown album (hello, reference to Zoom interviews) avoids cliche.
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Jan 28, 2021Cuomo’s habit of describing how he feels, instead of fusing his emotions directly to the songs (as lyricist Tony Asher did with Brian Wilson), gets in the way of OK Human becoming a breakthrough.
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Jan 28, 2021The problem with OK Human isn't that Cuomo makes a facepalm-inducing Kim Jong-un reference and rhymes sad with bad, it's that there's not enough genuine pathos to outweigh the places where he can't help himself. Instead, the fleeting moments of authenticity are hidden beneath a pile of hokey one-liners, spotty vocal performances, and awkward arrangements that rely on the accompanying orchestra to provide all of the emotional depth.
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Positive: 62 out of 70
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Mixed: 5 out of 70
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Negative: 3 out of 70
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Mar 11, 2021Ok Human got me into Weezer again after years of work that didnt stick out. Every song is solid & its an incredibly compelling & easy listen.
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Aug 20, 2021
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Feb 4, 2021Perfectly captures pandemic loneliness set in beautiful orchestral arrangements that deliver on melancholy but offer glimpses of hope.
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Feb 15, 2021
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Jan 29, 2021This is classic Weezer with a twist. Not to mention some of the catchiest tunes since White.
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Feb 5, 2021
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Feb 2, 2021
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