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''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''iHeart Radio''':}} Do you think that the album gives a darker [[Beach Boys]] vibe?'' | ''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''iHeart Radio''':}} Do you think that the album gives a darker [[Beach Boys]] vibe?'' | ||
''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''Rivers''': It's definitely dark but I think we lost the Beach Boys a bit and it's definitely more | ''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''Rivers''': It's definitely dark but I think we lost the Beach Boys a bit and it's definitely more influenced by Kanye as well as like 90s Beck and The Beastie Boys}}'' | ||
''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''Brian''':}} Even shoegaze, like shoegaze guitar thrown in the mix.' | ''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''Brian''':}} Even shoegaze, like shoegaze guitar thrown in the mix.' | ||
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''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''iHeart Radio''':}} What are some of the themes that inspired the music?'' | ''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''iHeart Radio''':}} What are some of the themes that inspired the music?'' | ||
''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''Rivers''':}} One of the main themes on the album is drugs, which is strange because I don't do drugs but the producer Dave does a lot of drugs. So I was just kinda hanging around with him and seeing what he's into and it was just so hilarious and weird | ''{{#tag:span style="color:#0"|'''Rivers''':}} One of the main themes on the album is drugs, which is strange because I don't do drugs but the producer Dave does a lot of drugs. So I was just kinda hanging around with him and seeing what he's into and it was just so hilarious and weird and inspiring so I wrote from his perspective as like this crazy person and, uh, it was a lot of fun me to step into his shoes.'' | ||
''As a songwriter I feel like these days I'm more like a portrait painter, like I'm bored of writing about myself so I just like to study somebody else and write from their perspective, that's how I get inspired.''}} | ''As a songwriter I feel like these days I'm more like a portrait painter, like I'm bored of writing about myself so I just like to study somebody else and write from their perspective, that's how I get inspired.''}} | ||
==Release== | ==Release== | ||
In an interview with ''Dazed'', Cuomo indicated a hope that the album would be out in May of 2018 and that it was nearly complete.<ref>Eloise, Marianne. "Rivers Cuomo on dark thoughts, Post Malone & being prolific" ''Dazed''. 27 October 2017. https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/37880/1/rivers-cuomo-on-dark-thoughts-post-malone-being-prolific</ref> On [[February 2]], Cuomo stated on an Australian Radio show that ''The Black Album'' was coming [[May 25]], 2018.{{Citation needed}} He also said that it was very similar to ''[[Pinkerton]]'' writing wise and that ''[[Pacific Daydream]]'' would be the modern day [[Homie]]. | In an interview with ''Dazed'', Cuomo indicated a hope that the album would be out in May of 2018 and that it was nearly complete.<ref>Eloise, Marianne. "Rivers Cuomo on dark thoughts, Post Malone & being prolific" ''Dazed''. 27 October 2017. https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/37880/1/rivers-cuomo-on-dark-thoughts-post-malone-being-prolific</ref> On [[February 2]], Cuomo stated on an Australian Radio show that ''The Black Album'' was coming [[May 25]], 2018.{{Citation needed}} He also said that it was very similar to ''[[Pinkerton]]'' writing wise and that ''[[Pacific Daydream]]'' would be the modern day [[Homie]]. | ||