Reviews / / 05 · 05 · 2021
Itâs finally here! The fabled âVan Weezerâ has finally arrived! Take your pandemic, your year-long delays, and your brilliant surprise releases, and stick âem where the sun donât shine! Weâre hair metal stans now,
baby.
Seriously though,
Weezer have been teasing this album for quite some time; with references to âVan Weezerâ dating back to before the band had even released their magnum anus â the
self-titled âblackâ album, for those not in the know â in March 2019. Rivers Cuomo, somewhat optimistically, has described the bandâs 15th (!) studio album as
Letâs get this out of the way first: does Van Weezer sound anything at all like Van Halen? Aside from a handful of guitar solos featuring shredding and finger tapping â techniques that the late Eddie Van Halen (whom this album was dedicated to after his passing in October 2020) helped popular