New music Tuesday: Weezer, Slayer, and the guy from The Strokes
What you'll find in stores and online for the first time today
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The biggest question regarding new music releases today is: “How bad is the new Weezer album?” According to The A.V. Club’s Erik Adams, it’s not that bad at all. “Weezer’s first and second records set trends; its seventh chases them,” Adams writes in his C+ review, conceding that the band (with help from outside songwriters) “have written some well-crafted pop for Raditude.” Eh, we’re still not buying it, though fans will at least want to check it out on iTunes before the band’s Dec. 3 show at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom.
Also due out today is Strokes singer Julian Casablancas solo debut Phrazes Of The Young, which establishes “Casablancas as a solo artist worth following,” writes Keith Phipps. But the best record coming out today might be Slayer’s World Painted Blood, which Leonard Pierce calls “a resounding success” in his A- review. “It rarely flags in intensity, and it’s good enough that if it were inserted in Slayer’s discography right after Seasons In The Abyss—the record it most resembles—it would be an almost seamless transition.” Sweet. Let’s turn up the volume and sacrifice some virgins!
