Everything Will Be Alright in the End by Weezer

Everything Will Be Alright in the End, Weezer's ninth album, came out on October 7, 2014, their one and only release on Republic, and it brought Ric Ocasek back to produce them for the third and last time after the Blue Album and the Green Album. After the electronic pop sheen of Raditude and Hurley, Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell and Scott Shriner went back to the crunchy guitars and big, goofy-sincere hooks of their early records.

Cuomo's lyrics circle his relationships with father figures, with his fans and with women, and there's a winking self-awareness to the whole thing, a band sounding relieved to be itself again. "Back to the Shack", "Cleopatra" and "Da Vinci" were the singles. Critics called it their best since Pinkerton, and it reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200, the band's fifth top-five album, moving 34,000 copies in its first week.

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