Weezer Releases Pandemic Album, OK Human
Weezer is back with another album, the first of 2021, and OK Human is ready for you to dive in for a listen.
If you’ve been home a lot over the last year, and you want to feel like someone gets it, you want to hear songs that connect with that – this album will make you feel seen. Weezer is all the way up in their pandemic quarantine, ‘stay home, stay safe’ feelings.
OK Human is 12 songs, 30 minutes, strings, feelings, a new US Alternative Top 40 (and climbing) single in All My Favorite Songs, and feels more real and unmasked and relatable than I expected going in.
Weezer – All My Favorite Songs
Weezer’s journey (through my eyes) from ‘upstart cool band’ when I was a teenager to ‘underrated artists on their own path’, to ‘band my kid knows because of Lost In The Woods from Frozen 2′, to ‘reemerging and safe place to land’ rock band after a really hard year, is a long and winding road – and I hope they are as thankful for it as I am to have listened to it over the last 25+ years.
This is, fully and completely, a pandemic record. Not just in that it was written and recorded during the pandemic, but in that, it captures the feelings of going through it and living it and all of the UGH that has been over these last months. I don’t know if we’ll think of it like that when we look back at it. But we should. OK Human is a product of the COVID-19 era – through and through.
Perhaps no part of the album related to me more than the start of Playing My Piano when Rivers sings, “I should get back to these Zoom interviews / But I get so absorbed and time flies”, even though I don’t have a piano and I don’t play the piano, I get it. Whether it’s doom scrolling or binge-watching or playing Mario Kart, I get so absorbed and time flies too.
Weezer – Playing My Piano
OK Human is more strings and fewer guitars. More feelings and fewer jokes. It’s still Weezer, but it’s not the Blue Album or Green Album, or Pinkerton. And that’s really okay. It is. If you want those records, put ’em on and listen and sing along and get nostalgic and enjoy. I do it.
But for now, to start 2021, we have new songs and new sounds and new Weezer. Later in the year (scheduled for May 7, 2021), we’ll get more again on Van Weezer, so start with this one – and be ready for the next one. If you love Weezer, this could be a good year for your ears.
Check out the full OK Human tracklist now, and hit play to listen to the new album from Weezer. Enjoy.
Weezer, OK Human Tracklist
1. All My Favorite Songs
2. Aloo Gobi
3. Grapes of Wrath
4. Numbers
5. Playing My Piano
6. Mirror Image
7. Screens
8. Bird With A Broken Wing
9. Dead Roses
10. Everything Happens For A Reason
11. Here Comes The Rain
12. La Brea Tar Pits
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Weezer Releases Pandemic Album, OK Human
By Joshua Murray
Weezer is back with another album, the first of 2021, and OK Human is ready for you to dive in for a listen.
If you’ve been home a lot over the last year, and you want to feel like someone gets it, you want to hear songs that connect with that – this album will make you feel seen. Weezer is all the way up in their pandemic quarantine, ‘stay home, stay safe’ feelings.
OK Human is 12 songs, 30 minutes, strings, feelings, a new US Alternative Top 40 (and climbing) single in All My Favorite Songs, and feels more real and unmasked and relatable than I expected going in.
Weezer – All My Favorite Songs
Weezer’s journey (through my eyes) from ‘upstart cool band’ when I was a teenager to ‘underrated artists on their own path’, to ‘band my kid knows because of Lost In The Woods from Frozen 2′, to ‘reemerging and safe place to land’ rock band after a really hard year, is a long and winding road – and I hope they are as thankful for it as I am to have listened to it over the last 25+ years.
This is, fully and completely, a pandemic record. Not just in that it was written and recorded during the pandemic, but in that, it captures the feelings of going through it and living it and all of the UGH that has been over these last months. I don’t know if we’ll think of it like that when we look back at it. But we should. OK Human is a product of the COVID-19 era – through and through.
Perhaps no part of the album related to me more than the start of Playing My Piano when Rivers sings, “I should get back to these Zoom interviews / But I get so absorbed and time flies”, even though I don’t have a piano and I don’t play the piano, I get it. Whether it’s doom scrolling or binge-watching or playing Mario Kart, I get so absorbed and time flies too.
Weezer – Playing My Piano
OK Human is more strings and fewer guitars. More feelings and fewer jokes. It’s still Weezer, but it’s not the Blue Album or Green Album, or Pinkerton. And that’s really okay. It is. If you want those records, put ’em on and listen and sing along and get nostalgic and enjoy. I do it.
But for now, to start 2021, we have new songs and new sounds and new Weezer. Later in the year (scheduled for May 7, 2021), we’ll get more again on Van Weezer, so start with this one – and be ready for the next one. If you love Weezer, this could be a good year for your ears.
Check out the full OK Human tracklist now, and hit play to listen to the new album from Weezer. Enjoy.
Weezer, OK Human Tracklist
1. All My Favorite Songs
2. Aloo Gobi
3. Grapes of Wrath
4. Numbers
5. Playing My Piano
6. Mirror Image
7. Screens
8. Bird With A Broken Wing
9. Dead Roses
10. Everything Happens For A Reason
11. Here Comes The Rain
12. La Brea Tar Pits
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creator of content, daddy blogger, writer, coffee drinker, fan of the Batman. proud mo bro. prouder dad.
