published the 2009-11-24 00:00:00

After the Red Album released a year ago, the Californians from Weezer are back with a seventh album that confirms their talent of alchemists. Raditude is in the pure punk tradition of the band, without denying the benefits of other musical genres, to compose a rich music.

The album’s cover worth to be seen…this flying dog in a living room has everything from the weezerian spirit, crazy and without limits. Besides the cover has been subjected to the internet users so that everyone could make a "meme", those image diversions that spread on the web. This overture picture immediately transmits the spirit of the album, making us smiling and giving the motivation to know more about what is hidden behind.

Raditude has a strong beginning, in the true Californian rock tradition with the very good "(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To", the first single taken out from the album and that has already made the buzz. The tone is given, the album will be made of these powerful and biting songs, always stamped with a true sensibility that has set up Weezer as a flagship band. "I’m Your Daddy" confirms the way taken: the energy, the rhythmic and strong riffs will be Raditude’s signature…and even more! Weezer also knows how to be soft with songs such as "I Don’t Want To Let you Go" that mostly come at the end of the album to close a very diversified opus.

True that the album is above all some hard core Weezer, but it is also so much more! On this opus, the four L.A. boys called for different contributions. Far from denying this pop punk that seduces us, they strongly took it and modified it.

On this purpose, Weezer has no complexes mixing together some Indian music with drums and the voice of Rivers Cuomo on "Love Is The Answer", a bit like the Beatles…the result has a stunning creativity and genuineness: they successfully Americanize a song that was far from this pop-punk universe, without copying their English predecessors.

With "Can’t Stop Partying", Weezer shows that frontiers between genres  don’t exist. For them, the combo rep/pop is the true cocktail to make us partying!

Raditude has an amazing creativity and diversity. Weezer offers us a beautiful gift in which soft and strong work together and tradition mixes with exoticity.

Listen to Raditude

Have a nice surf on Jiwa!

Damien CAHEN

Source: jiwa