Everything Will Be Alright In The End, Weezer

From all the 90s' rockstars to appear, Rivers Cuomo's hardly looks like a rock rebel. He rose to fame with the band's first album “The Blue Album” followed by the 1996's Pinkerton. And 2005's video ''Beverly Hills,'' filmed at the Playboy Mansion. Cuomo was even rocking a Wyatt Earp mustache back in 2008
This year's release of “Everything Will Be Alright in the End” see the band reunite with Cars' Ric Ocasek, who produced the beloved Blue and Green albums, and who helps deliver “Everything” in the same rock-tastic fashion as the previous albums. Cuomo writes mostly about his father, a religious man who returned to his life after several decades of absence. Cuomo has named the batch of songs about fatherhood ''Patriarchia''; the track list also includes a series of girl songs he's called ''Belladonna'' and a set of tunes about his troublesome audience, titled ''The Panopticon Artist.''
The girl tunes include ''Go Away,'' a lovely duet with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, to the whimsical ''Da Vinci,'' with a cutesy chorus, ''Stephen Hawking can't explain you/Rosetta Stone could not translate you. All three subsets contain songs that are profoundly odd and reliably catchy'' The dad tracks tops with ''Foolish Father,'' a plea for paternal forgiveness that crests with a small choir singing like it's in the final act of an offbeat off-Broadway musical.
The tracks are a tribute to Weezer's relationship with their listeners, in the most tormented and theatrical way, as if Cuomo and Co. made their own version of American Idiot. Cuomo complains about unappreciative fans on ''I've Had It Up to Here,'' an extreme dramatic composition co-written with the Darkness' Justin Hawkins that emits a Queen-ly tone and sky-scraping high notes. In ''The British Are Coming'' he envisions himself as Paul Revere standing against the English. The album wraps with uber-guitar strumming, lively written lyrics and gang vocals that feels particularly ripe for a Michael Mayer stage adaptation. Followed by a ridiculously over-the-top finale only Cuomo could have come up with – a flawless finish for an album-length ''sorry not sorry.'' An album that stays true to Weezer and their fans.