Weezer – Death To False Metal

Having nerded themselves silly over the past decade, Rivers Cuomo and co take stock of their lengthy career with a bastard collection of material that didn’t quite make the cut for their respective albums at the time of recording. Touched up with additional vocals and guitar solos – rockin’ they are too – and sequenced as ten songs at rapid pace in old-skool Weezer fashion, it plays like a proper bona-fide record rather than a collection of uneasy misfits.

I Don’t Want Your Loving, a pre-Maladroit demo, is easily the best of the bunch, making you wish they'd included more of their prolific output from around this time. Opener, Turn Up The Radio – the result of Rivers Let’s Write a Sawng 2008 YouTube project – also boasts some of the playful harmonies and guitar chops that made so many fall in love with the band in the first place. But it can't beat the impending Pinkerton reissue. [Alan Souter]