Weezer – SZNZ: Winter – EP
Anyone who followed Weezer in 2022, through the first three of their four seasonal EPs, probably wasn’t just comfortable with the band’s quirks; it’s what they were here for: the obsessive catchiness (“Iambic Pentameter”), the adolescent overstatement (“The One That Got Away”), the way they can turn their nerdiness into a kind of private heroism (“Basketball”). No matter how personal his lyrics get, Rivers Cuomo sounds less like a human being than an alien studying one, which only serves to underscore how lonely he might be. And after nearly 30 years of pining after girls who don’t know he exists, he’s thinking it might be time to get a dog (“I Want a Dog”).