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'''''Weezer (The Black Album)''''' was planned as the follow-up album to 2016's ''[[Weezer (The White Album)]]''. The album that was supposed to contrast the ''[[Weezer (The White Album)]]'' lyrically and musically it has faced many delays as the bridge to the album halted the production as they released 2017's [[Pacific Daydream]]. Rivers has stated in multiple interviews that the album was going to be urban and more synth sounding ten steps further and more experimental than [[Pacific Daydream]]. While Rivers states that the album is nearly done with the May release date but Pat and Brian both state that it's in the demo state as of February. | |||
==Overview== | |||
Cuomo first talked about the Black album when appearing on Zane Lowe’s radio show in February 2017, saying the "White Album is cool ‘cause then next we can do a Black Album and it'll be like super dark. Already working on those songs. I just love contrast."[https://pitchfork.com/news/63610-weezer-share-la-girlz-rivers-cuomo-says-hes-already-working-on-the-black-album/] | |||
The frontman followed up in March, indicating that he was planning to work with Jake Sinclair again, who produced the White Album. He wanted to do something radical and said “Jake [Sinclair], our producer, was very much the voice of conservatism, on the side of the old-school fans... He won on [White], and I'm gonna win on the next album, which is the Black Album.” He also stated that he had been working on the record for 6 months.[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-ms-rivers-cuomo-20160327-story.html] | |||
In April, Cuomo gave more detail about the sound of the Black Album which he said would be coming on in a year. “The next album is going to feel like an urban environment, night-time and gritty and hopefully a lot more modern sounds, synthesised sounds, samples maybe. I like to break away from the distorted power-chord thing but it’s hard ‘cos it works so well.”[https://www.upsetmagazine.com/news/read/rivers-cuomo-talks-about-weezers-gritty-black-album/] | |||
In another interview in April he said that the Black Album would “require new psychological techniques, new writing techniques, new places to hang out, like Echo Park and Silver Lake. Psychoanalysis is going to play a big role. It's going to be more R-rated, with maybe swear words for the first time on a Weezer album."[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-dream-life-of-rivers-cuomo-20160407] | |||
Cuomo would summarise the sound. at the end of April, as “Beach Boys gone bad.”[http://diymag.com/2016/04/20/weezer-new-material-black-album] | |||
In November, Rivers commented in an interview with Vulture that "if Pacific Daydream was one big step away from Weezer’s history, then The Black Album is ten of those."[http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/weezer-rivers-cuomo-interview-lifehacks-pacific-daydream.html] | |||
==Release== | ==Release== | ||