Weezer’s Blue Album by Trashdog

For one kid growing up in a small Texas town, Weezer’s Blue Album represented the pinnacle of liberation, the peak of artistic expression in a world that snubbed its nose at the openly uncool and authentic. When confronted with the horrifying mundanity of Weezer’s post-hiatus stage presence and the crowds that accumulate to watch it, however, this kid flew headfirst into an existential crisis that lead to the creation of Weezer’s Blue Album under the name Trashdog. Standing boldly against everything that this formative concert experience represented, Trashdog employs a massive variety of styles to introduce us to their surreal perspective, from grunge to 80s college rock, from baroque pop to post punk. In Trashdog’s hands, the most serious, drab pillars of modern life crumble to sparkly dust, reducing to pointless, absurd, and hilarious tasks that give us a much-needed chance to escape our egos for a second and laugh at ourselves. Finally, Trashdog becomes what their child self had dreamed Weezer to be, an artist unencumbered by industry pretenses, committed to telling the bizarre, awkward, funny truth that we typically choose to ignore.