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At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the release received an average score of 75, based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". OK Human received generally favorable reviews. Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Musically, OK Human has been described as orchestral pop, chamber pop, baroque pop, pop, and pop rock. The cover art was created by Mattias Adolfsson. The album's title is a play on the 1997 Radiohead album OK Computer. On January 18, 2021, the band announced a release date of January 29 with the release date of the lead single, "All My Favorite Songs" on January 21. On November 17, 2020, the band announced the completion of OK Human during a Q&A session following a livestream performance. The album was planned to be released following their intended fourteenth album, Van Weezer, but when the album suffered a year-long delay following the COVID-19 pandemic, the band hinted that they were shifting their focus to completing OK Human first. In May 2020, Cuomo commented during a Zoom call that he estimated OK Human was "75% done", but that he did not anticipate the album being released in 2020. He noted the album was "piano-based" and "very eccentric" and that he had recorded strings for the album at Abbey Road Studios. Ĭuomo first mentioned OK Human prior to the release of Weezer (The Black Album) in a February 2019 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
This prompted them to start work on another album, Van Weezer, which featured music that would translate better to a stadium tour, but when the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the tour, they decided to switch around the release dates of the albums once again. They had just finished production on the album when they got an offer to join bands Green Day and Fall Out Boy on the Hella Mega Tour for the summer of 2020. Producer Jake Sinclair suggested that they hire a 38-piece orchestra and also gave Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo the album Nilsson Sings Newman to listen to, on which singer Harry Nilsson covered songs by Randy Newman.
Work on OK Human began as early as 2017, when the band decided to make an album that combined rock instrumentation with an orchestra. OK Human is the first of two Weezer albums to be released in 2021, followed only four months later by Van Weezer. The album received generally positive reviews from critics. The album was preceded by the lead single " All My Favorite Songs", released on January 21, 2021. Featuring a baroque-pop influenced sound, inspired by albums such as Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Sings Newman (1970) and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (1966), the album was recorded entirely with analogue equipment and features a 38-piece orchestra. OK Human is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on Januby Crush Music and Atlantic Records.
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