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SZNZ: Summer

{{Infobox album

| name = SZNZ: Summer

| type = ep

| artist = Weezer

| cover = Weezer SZNZ Summer.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|2022|6|21}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = * Alternative rock{{cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/listen-weezer-drop-sznz-summer-ep-announce-broadway-residency|title=LISTEN: WEEZER DROP SZNZ: SUMMER EP, ANNOUNCE BROADWAY RESIDENCY|website=Kerrang!}}

  • power pop
  • heavy metal{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/weezer_sznz_summer_ep_album_review|title=Weezer Set Fire to 'Summer' with Their Heaviest Album Ever | Exclaim!|website=exclaim.ca}}

| length = 23:37

| label = * Atlantic

| producer = * Daniel Omelio

| prev_title = SZNZ: Spring

| prev_year = 2022

| year = 2022

| next_title = SZNZ: Autumn

| next_year = 2022

| misc = {{Singles

| name = SZNZ: Summer

| type = EP

| single1 = Records

| single1date = June 16, 2022

}}

}}

SZNZ: Summer is the eighth EP by American rock band Weezer, and the second of four EPs in their SZNZ (pronounced "seasons") project. It was released digitally on June 21, 2022, coinciding with the Summer solstice. The album received its lead single "Records" just a few days before its release.{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/weezer_share_summer_single_records|title=Weezer Share 'Summer' Single "Records" — but There's a Twist | Exclaim!|website=exclaim.ca}}

Background

Rivers Cuomo described the EP's sound as "21st century 90s". Aesthetically, he linked the project to 44 BC at the end of the Roman Republic, with an intended emotion of "youthful indignation".{{Cite web |date=2022-06-04 |title=weezer: SZNZ - Google Sheets |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BGWLEmZohpOPaLBPe132FMrHvSgyw8PHt8k93AmZ0kQ/edit#gid=0 |access-date=2022-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604002041/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BGWLEmZohpOPaLBPe132FMrHvSgyw8PHt8k93AmZ0kQ/edit#gid=0 |archive-date=2022-06-04 }}

Release

On June 16, 2022, Weezer released the lead single, "Records", on an app called "Human Record Player". The app would play the song once the user spins themselves around clockwise like a record player.{{Cite web |title=You can listen to the new Weezer single… but only by becoming a… |url=https://www.kerrang.com/you-can-listen-to-the-new-weezer-single-but-only-by-becoming-a-human-record-player/ |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=Kerrang! |language=en}} SZNZ: Summer was officially released on June 21, 2022, the day of the Summer Solstice.

Critical reception

{{Music ratings

| MC =

| title = SZNZ: Summer ratings

| rev1 = Exclaim!

| rev1score = 7/10

| rev2 = Gigwise

| rev2score = {{rating|8|10}}{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Rob |title=EP Review: Weezer - SZNZ: Summer |url=https://www.gigwise.com/reviews/3423581/ep-review--weezer--sznz--summer |website=Gigwise |access-date=June 30, 2022 |date=June 29, 2022}}

| rev3 = Pitchfork

| rev3score = 4.2/10{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/weezer-sznz-summer/ |title=Weezer: SZNZ: Summer Album Review |website=Pitchfork |last=Locke |first=Jesse |date=June 30, 2022 |access-date=July 1, 2022}}

| rev4 = Riff Magazine

| rev4score = 6/10

}}

Alex Hudson at Exclaim! opined that SZNZ: Summer is their heaviest release, surpassing Maladroit and Van Weezer, largely praising the EP. Hudson, however, added "The only real blunder is Summer's glossy, quantized, computer-made sound; with the raw energy of playing live in a room, Weezer's Summer pyrotechnics display might have truly ignited, rather than simply smouldered." David Gill of Riff Magazine was slightly more critical of the EP, stating "Cuomo's patented brand of plainspoken emotional vulnerability is still there, but the psychological urgency of The Blue Album and Pinkerton seems to have been replaced by a kind of ironic, almost vocational indifference. It's as if, 30 years after releasing some of the most intense and evocative emo rock ever made, Cuomo and Weezer now approach music as a problem to solve rather than a vehicle for their own catharsis."{{Cite web|url=https://riffmagazine.com/album-reviews/weezer-szns-summer/|title=Album Review: Weezer goes on vacation with 'SZNS: Summer'|date=June 21, 2022}} In a negative review, Jesse Locke of Pitchfork wrote: "At this point in their career, Weezer are the musical equivalent of The Simpsons. Hacky, pandering, and decades past their best work..."

Track listing

{{Track listing

| total_length = 23:37

| all_writing = Rivers Cuomo. "Records" co-written by Grant Phillip Michaels and Sam Hollander

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Lawn Chair

| length1 = 2:04

| title2 = Records

| length2 = 3:28

| title3 = Blue Like Jazz

| length3 = 3:12

| title4 = The Opposite of Me

| length4 = 3:30

| title5 = What's the Good of Being Good

| length5 = 4:02

| title6 = Cuomoville

| length6 = 3:16

| title7 = Thank You and Good Night

| length7 = 4:05

}}

{{Track listing

|headline = Vinyl-exclusive bonus track

|title7 = Portia{{ref|a}}

|writer7 =

|length7 = 3:23

}}

Notes

:1.{{note|a}}The Vinyl version puts track 7 "Thank You and Good Night" as track 8 on the tracklist.

Personnel

Weezer

Additional personnel

References

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Category:2022 EPs

Category:Atlantic Records EPs

Category:Heavy metal albums by American artists

Category:Weezer EPs