Some time a long, long time ago Weezer were credible. We’ll call this the Blue Album/Pinkerton era (1994-1997). Then what feels like an equally long time ago they just stopped giving a fuck. We’ll call this the everything after the Green album era (2002-present).
Well, Weezer is still knee deep in its “Who gives a fuck” era, as evidenced by the title and album cover of their upcoming disc. Hurley, named after the hefty and loveable character from Lost, will be released in November, the cover art being nothing more than fat Hurley’s face.
Rivers Cuomo’s non-explanation explanation to Spinner about the title and cover of the new disc?
“I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face.”
Whatever (sigh). You guys don’t give a shit and neither should I. Good news is the album will drop on Epitaph, and Cuomo promises a much heavier, rawer disc than the band’s last few. This could threaten to reattach some much needed credibility to the Weezer name. Not holding my breath, but we can hope, can’t we?
RB
