Questo venerdì i Weezer pubblicheranno The Black Album, il loro secondo album del 2019 preceduto in gennaio da The Teal Album – la raccolta di cover che include la Africa dei Toto.

Ma non è tutto. Intervistato da Entertainment Weekly, River Cuomo ha rivelato che la band è già al lavoro su altri due album:

What I’ve been working on the last two weeks is back to big guitars . The working title is Van Weezer. The inspiration came from our live shows, where, in the middle of ‘Beverly Hills’, unlike on the album, everything stops and I just break out with this crazy guitar solo. We noticed that, recently, the crowd just goes crazy when I do that. So it feels like maybe the audience is ready for some shredding again.

Cuomo ha poi aggiunto sul secondo disco in lavorazione:

Van Weezer is in mortal combat with Okay Human, a record that’s mostly done. That one’s totally different. It’s inspired by an album from 1970 called Nilsson Sings Newman. It’s all piano-based, but it has a ton of orchestration. We just did the strings at Abbey Road. It’s just gorgeous melodies and extremely eccentric lyrics.

A fine intervista il frontman della band ha speso qualche parola anche sul successo della cover dei Toto:

The one thing I wasn’t prepared for was the pain of success, and by that I mean the pain of having huge success with a song [laughs] I didn’t write. So, yeah, that really has thrown me. And it’s taken me awhile to regain my faith.