Make Believe is a breakthrough for Weezer, a bold step into the world of the two-word album title, with twelve songs running 45:15, positively epic by their standards.  Full text...

Rivers still makes genius pop records.  Full text...

Make Believe proves that (at least half of the time) Weezer doesn't have to play Weezer all the time.  Full text...

It's the schizophrenic sound of a band starting over a decade later. The promise of the album,though, is that Rivers has regained the ability to channel his vulnerability, not mask it with glossy production and sterile lyrics. Here's hoping, for our sake, he doesn't find the peace he's looking for.   Full text...

Make Believe is a fine pop record, with an overlay of Comedy Central humor that makes it neither the best nor the worst album this band has recorded. Now, where are those confiscated drugs?  Full text...

Make Believe is an unappealing mix of by-the-numbers product smothering a battered psyche. It simply doesn't work.  Full text...

On this album, I found peace. And with peace comes simplicity.  Full text...

Make Believe finds Cuomo donkey-punching the formaldehyde-soaked corpse of his former glory.  Full text...

Sometimes an album is just awful. Make Believe is one of those albums.  Full text...