Foo Fighters and Hayley Williams were the biggest recent leaks I can think of. it's not as common as it used to be but def still happens
The new Fratellis album leaked several months ago but still isn't out. It was supposed to be released last year though but keeps getting pushed back by the label.
Take out Beverly Hills, We Are All On Drugs, and Best Friend and Make Believe is actually really great
Y’all trippin, Pacific Daydream is crazy underrated and if the arrangements were more guitar rock it’d be a fave. The songwriting is sick Mexican Fender bridge rules, very cool bVI chord. Beach Boys chorus rules, and the bass part is some of my favorite Scott playing. Scott’s really good. Also this is the only dorian Weezer song I can think of Feels Like Summer is so sad and bummery and “climbing up the tower just a boy and his computer” is one of my favorite RC lyrics Happy Hour is like the sad paradise sequel to Island In The Sun and on a compositional level it’s up there with Here Comes My Girl and Hey Jeaousy when it comes to the perfect pairing of the lydian scale with a song of longing. I love how the music is always leaning forward, it complements the lyric so well Also really love how he sings the lime and coconut line so much not really feelin the qb blitz ice fields of hoth lyric tho
I actually think Beach Boys is one of my least favorite choruses by them lol It's so weird how this relatively simple band inspires such drastically different opinions
Dammit you people have me revisiting Pacific Daydream - need to remember why I didn't care to remember anything about it.
"Numbers" is amazing, that chorus soars this album is great, very idiosyncratic is promised. dunno if it's the first-listen jitters but some of it does feel underdeveloped, like it ends just when a bridge or another chorus could have taken it to the next level. like that sick orchestral breakdown on "La Brea Tar Pits" could have gone for a minute or more but they just cut it at 15 seconds, it's weird probably the best-sounding Weezer album, though, and some seriously high highs. "Here Comes the Rain" is unbelievable, so are "Numbers" and "Dead Roses". can't wait to see how this album settles with time
already growing on second listen. the way this flows together as one 30-minute track rules. also the raw vocal take at the end of "Mirror Image" is like, absurdly affecting lol
Yeah this is pretty fantastic. Gorgeous arrangements and some of Rivers’ most vulnerable songwriting in a long time. Just let Jake Sinclair produce all their stuff going forward lol