Weezer Teal Album

You can go ahead and save that photo of you as a baby in a fedora for next week, hun, because Weezer has already dunked on your #ThrowbackThursday so hard. At midnight on Thursday morning the band suddenly released Weezer (The Teal Album), which includes ten tracks of covers and a photo of the band all dressed up and ready to attend your college fraternity’s 80’s night.

Weezer are no strangers to familiar takes on pop classics they did The Monkees' “I'm a Believer” for Shrek and The Cars' “You Might Think” for Cars 2. But after a fan's successful viral campaign to get them to cover Toto's “Africa” gave them their biggest hit in ages, they made a project of it with ground rules. Inspired by Phil Collins' version of “You Can't Hurry Love,” they would stick to largely faithful readings of pre-'90s songs and avoid alt-rock peers as well as obvious classic-rock staples like “Hotel California.” “We don't wanna be a bar band,” Rivers Cuomo tells Apple Music. “The Teal Album is what was left.” Cuomo and guitarist Brian Bell explain their picks for this set of other people's greatest hits.

Weezer is not the first major artist in pop history to call a project The Black Album, but theirs is the first to [double-checks notes] immediately follow a Teal Album and include a song about parasailing. So don’t let the foreboding name fool you: This doesn’t lean into metal or goth sensibilities any more than The Green Album was about envy. Produced by TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, the band's decidedly poppy 13th album (and sixth monochromatic and self-titled) runs the sonic gamut from acoustic to bombastic.

Fourteenth studio album by the American rock band. In February 2019, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo began working on new songs with a hard rock influence, in contrast to the pop rock and electropop sound that had been featured on the band's previous albums 'Pacific Daydream' (2017), the 'Teal Album' (2019), and the then-upcoming 'Black Album' (2019). In an interview that month with Entertainment Weekly, Cuomo mentioned that an album tentatively titled 'Van Weezer' was in the works, and that it would take the band 'back to big guitars'. The album features the single 'The End of the Game'.

Fourteenth studio album by the American rock band. In February 2019, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo began working on new songs with a hard rock influence, in contrast to the pop rock and electropop sound that had been featured on the band's previous albums 'Pacific Daydream' (2017), the 'Teal Album' (2019), and the then-upcoming 'Black Album' (2019).