Weezer, Weezer (Gold Album)

★★★★

Having long ago cycled through most of the primary colors, Weezer settles on a Gold schematic for their sixth eponymous album, which happens to be their first full-length record in half a decade. The band entered hiatus after spending 2022 delivering a conceptual EP every time seasons changed, an interesting project that may have misjudged the attention span of audiences recovering from a pandemic.

Grand artistic ambitions fall by the wayside on The Gold Album which, like so many albums named Weezer albums before it, functions as a bit of a reset for the quartet—a signal that the alt-rockers are ready to get “Back to the Shack.”