Yep, just one album. And it’s not even an album. But hey, whaddaya want for the second-last week of the year? Just be glad Rivers Cuomo is a workaholic or we’d have nothing to talk about:
Weezer
SZNS: Winter
Rivers Cuomo and co. wrap up their year-long series of seasonal EPs with the fourth and final instalment Winter. Cuomo has said it will be stylistically similar to the works of Elliott Smith — “lots of loss and despair and kind of quiet.” He also claims “Winter sounds more like the original pre-Blue album Weezer then The Blue Album does. There hasn’t been this much acoustic guitar and fingerpicking in Weezer since our first year together.” Presumably that’s a good thing? If you happened to be at the Troubadour in West Hollywood this fall to catch the band playing a secret show under the name Goat Punishment, you’ve already heard these songs. If not, you can tide yourself over with the first single, I Want A Dog:
