“Aside from the singles, Weezer's fifteenth studio album is decidedly un-rad”
“Rivers Cuomo's latest opus is a surprisingly big-hearted tribute to the big-hair era”
“veteran pop-rockers throw up the Devil horns”
“Rivers Cuomo’s latest is a tribute to his hair metal heroes, but it never goes all that hard.”
“Weezer continues to play it safe, as if they have much to lose”
“Between a few tracks hitting and Rivers singing "pump it up into me, please daddy" as a hook, Van Weezer is pretty much a mid-tier Weezer album.”