Weezer is putting out an album titled Hurley later this year, and you know its got to be good just by looking at the cover art. That’s right, the photograph you see on this article is the cover of Hurley. If you can’t see the picture, it’s just a picture of Jorge Garcia, smiling. There aren’t any words, there’s not even the band’s name on there. It’s just a picture of Jorge.
While Pitchfork is calling the album cover “ridiculous,” I think it’s pretty brilliant.
The picture is cropped from one of Garcia with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, who is still working on watching the series. “I only made it through season two, so I was really nervous hanging out with Hurley/Jorge recently, because I didn’t want to hear something about how it all resolves, or overhear anyone else talking about it,” Cuomo said. “I really like the show though.”
“I was coming up with all kinds of stuff [for the album’s title], but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face.”
Hurley is slated to come out September 14. I’ve never been particularly wild about Weezer, but strangely, they’ve sold me.
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