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Following the critical success of Weezer's ninth studio album ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]'', they dropped their record label for the second time in a row, ending up with [[Crush Music]] as their new record label; Their new manager at the label, [[Dustin Addis]], paired the band up with producer [[Jake Sinclair]], familiar for the band as he worked as an engineer on their previous album, | Following the critical success of Weezer's ninth studio album ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]'', they dropped their record label for the second time in a row, ending up with [[Crush Music]] as their new record label; Their new manager at the label, [[Dustin Addis]], paired the band up with producer [[Jake Sinclair]], familiar for the band as he worked as an engineer on their previous album, ''[[Raditude]]''. Dustin would also provide the band with a suggestion for their next release, write a beach record, Cuomo would later say “It was one of those things where it’s so obvious that we never even realized it.”<ref name="LA Times">Wood, Mikael. "Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo is getting ‘comeback’ fatigue" Los Angeles Times. 25 March 2016. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-ms-rivers-cuomo-20160327-story.html</ref> | ||
Weezer went into the studio to record around summer of [[2015]] to record the album. Around fall of 2015, Addis suggested the idea of a white-colored self-titled release.<ref name="BIO">Heisel, Scott. "Black Album bio". November 2018. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Black_Album_bio_-_November_2018</ref> Cuomo disliked this, taking into consideration the sound and general concept, he felt the album felt too reminiscent of [[Weezer (The Blue Album)|''Blue'']] in a way he wanted to avoid with future projects. "I’m always trying to emphasize the new things we’ve tried" Cuomo said.<ref name="LA Times"></ref> It was what Addis suggested next that satiated rivers. "then he said, 'And that means the next album can be the Black Album!' and I was like, that’s cool, I’m in. That’s all it was."<ref name="BIO"></ref> | Weezer went into the studio to record around summer of [[2015]] to record the album. Around fall of 2015, Addis suggested the idea of a white-colored self-titled release.<ref name="BIO">Heisel, Scott. "Black Album bio". November 2018. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Black_Album_bio_-_November_2018</ref> Cuomo disliked this, taking into consideration the sound and general concept, he felt the album felt too reminiscent of [[Weezer (The Blue Album)|''Blue'']] in a way he wanted to avoid with future projects. "I’m always trying to emphasize the new things we’ve tried" Cuomo said.<ref name="LA Times"></ref> It was what Addis suggested next that satiated rivers. "then he said, 'And that means the next album can be the Black Album!' and I was like, that’s cool, I’m in. That’s all it was."<ref name="BIO"></ref> | ||