Weezer - Raditude

Weezer seemed so set for legendary status – their oh-so-knowing wit, melody and crunching rock were the perfect pop punk mixture, and they even managed in their earliest days to amass an indie cred.

They progressively frittered all of those things away in more recent years with a collection of so-so records that would only be simple retreads of their earlier, better work. Raditude continues that slide, with a collection of songs that would sound about right from McFly.

The music, unfortunately, aims at teen angst, and sounds plain weird from a bunch of middle aged men. The tight Weezer sound underpins every song, but there is nothing in Raditude that isn’t bettered by the superior OK Go.

Raditude does manage to achieve cringe, though, in Love Is The Answer, which is as awful a song as you will ever hear.

Raditude is best avoided. Listen instead to the Blue album, Pinkerton or the Green album and remember them the way they used to be.

Rating 4/10
Mike Rea