- Label
- DCG
- Release date
- 2nd November 2009
- Genre
- Rock
- Buy this album
- Order CD
Veteran US geek-rockers phone in generic offering
Like the poor and Bruce Forsyth, Weezer will always be with us. Raditude is the perennial US college rockers’ seventh album, and it sounds like it. This is the sound of a band out of ideas and not even bothering to hide the fact.
Signed while Kurt Cobain was still alive, Weezer (along with Wheatus) always were the court jesters of the post-grunge generation but this time around Rivers Cuomo is goofing off on autopilot.
Weezer have a formula and they ain’t about to alter it. Ever the professional geek, Cuomo continues to lust awkwardly after out-of-his-league babes on The Girl Got Hot and Tripping Down The Freeway. For a man who turns 40 next year, In The Mall’s paean to hanging around shopping centres (“No place better”) sounds simply ridiculous.
Lil Wayne’s louche rap on Can’t Stop Partying is a welcome surprise but otherwise Raditude is the sound of a bored band treading water. Disappointing.
More to try:
Dashboard Confessional: The Shade of Poison Trees
Ben Folds: Rockin’ The Suburbs
Death Cab For Cutie: Narrow Stairs
