Grade: C-
Weezer’s “Hurley” plays out much like someone’s reaction when they see Hurley from TV’s “Lost” on the album cover: It might be funny, but unfortunately it’s not always intentional comedy. Like Weezer’s last decade of output, the band rolls through power-pop songs while Rivers Cuomo waxes nostalgic about girls he never actually got and younger days that just had to be better. The band does mix it up a bit, working in lo-fi acoustic bits and some vulnerable moments, but irritating crunching guitars muddle album highlights “Unspoken” and “Hang On” as Weezer forces alt-rock templates onto promising tunes.