Return of The Rentals by The Rentals

Return of the Rentals, the Rentals' debut, landed on Halloween 1995 through Maverick and Reprise: a band fronted by Matt Sharp, singing and playing bass while he was still holding down the low end in Weezer, with Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson behind the kit.

It's a sweet, goofy, buzzing little record that sounds like a basement party with every amp turned to fuzz. "Friends of P." was the one that broke through, climbing to 7 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and getting plenty of play on MTV's 120 Minutes, and the critics liked the album. The sales never followed: No. 19 on the Heatseekers chart and 96,000 copies in the US by 1999. And don't hold your breath for a deluxe edition. Sharp said in 2019 that the label had lost or destroyed both the master tapes and the artwork.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.