Weezer
Pinkerton LP vinyl

Few records claim as bizarre a history as Weezer's Pinkerton. Upon release in 1996, the band's sophomore effort failed to meet sales expectations, lacked a hit single, and drew primarily negative reviews from the press. Then, via word of mouth and reevaluation, the Little Album That Could began build a reputation as an initially misunderstood masterwork – a bold, brave, and exposed creation that happened to have hyper-contagious hooks to accompany the confessional lyrics. Today, it's cited on virtually every Best Albums of the 1990s list in existence.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI, our analog version of the effort Rolling Stone awarded a full five-star review upon revisiting it eight years later brings the band's live-in-the-studio vocals and darker, raw feel to the surface like never before. Leader Rivers Cuomo's decision to record group choruses around three microphones rather than capture them separately finally can be experienced as originally intended, with the immediate vibe paying off in the form of more engaging, edgier results that parallel the songs' personal emotions and frustrated themes. Guitars, which scrape and push, augmenting the trials and tribulations documented in the narratives, are finally rendered in proper perspective.

NEW / Released in 1996 / Reissue 2016

Tracklist:

A1 Tired Of Sex

A2 Getchoo

A3 No Other One

A4 Why Bother?

A5 Across The Sea

B1 The Good Life

B2 El Scorcho

B3 Pink Triangle

B4 Falling For You

B5 Butterfly