Weezer - Hurley
The hilariously titled and ‘artworked’ Hurley, Weezer’s eight studio album and first for independent label Epitaph, finds the boys in fine and boisterous form, as ever. It’s quite a poppy effort from the lead single and singalong track Memories to the self-referential Trainwrecks. Being a Weezer album, it’s not without it’s silly moments either like Rivers’ ode to Smart Girls or Where’s My Sex - the most ridiculous use of the word sex in a song since the Kings of Leon. It’s too easy (and too common in the ol’ blogosphere) to say that Weezer have become a pastiche of themselves but you get the feeling that their writing is much less nuanced these days even if the tunes themselves have remained as hook-laden as they used to be. But they’re Weezer so you can’t help but enjoy it…
