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Jan 26, 2021 · Emily Carter. Photo: Jonathan Weiner. While fans were very pleasantly surprised to learn that we're going to be getting a new Weezer record in just a couple of days' time, Rivers Cuomo has...
Jan 29, 2021 · Weezer's new record, OK Human, is an orchestral affair, recorded back to back with a heavy metal album. Weezer 's lead singer and songwriter, Rivers Cuomo, works on so much music...
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Jan 29, 2021 · OK Human is out today. Cuomo joined NPR's Ailsa Chang to talk about his need to pursue opposing sounds in his music, his data-driven approach to songwriting and the time he briefly went on leave from Weezer to enroll at Harvard. Read on for an edited transcript.
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Rivers Cuomo has credited producer Jake Sinclair with planting "the seed of an idea" for OK Human in 2017. "Just you and a piano, and an orchestra, and it's gonna be super-personal, quirky songs that only you could write, not worrying about commercial potential at all, adding that Sinclair suggested he listen to the 1970 album Nilsson Sings Newman ...
On January 5, Cuomo gave more info on the album to the users of Riverchat, describing how the album's instrumentation shifted over time to include a full orchestra (as opposed to only strings, as initially conceived). He also confirmed that the album had more than ten tracks. The same day, Barry Summers of the video production company Fantracks con...
The cover art for OK Human was illustrated by artist Mattias Adolfsson. Rivers Cuomo confirmed in September of 2020 that he first discovered Adolfsson's work in a comic shop, and subsequently commissioned Adolfsson to illustrate an original piece for the album. The illustration originally featured Cuomo with shorter hair, but was apparently redrawn...
Weezer
1. Rivers Cuomo- lead vocals, piano 2. Brian Bell- acoustic guitar, organ, backing vocals 3. Scott Shriner- bass, vocal harmonies 4. Patrick Wilson- drums, vocal harmonies
Additional musicians
1. Rob Mathes— arrangement, conducting
Additional personnel
1. Jake Sinclair— producer 2. Suzy Shinn— vocal producer, engineer 3. Jonathan Allen— chief engineer 4. William Wittman— chief engineer 5. William Carroll— engineer 6. Zach Fisher— engineer 7. Brian Fombona— engineer 8. Perry Margouleff— engineer 9. Paul Pritchard— engineer 10. Maureen Sickler— engineer 11. Rachel White— engineer 12. Lawton Burris— assistant 13. Branko Presley— assistant 14. Karl Wingate— assistant 15. Lazaro Zarate— assistant 16. Andy Maxwell— assistant 17. John Sinclair— mi...
Feb 1, 2021 · In the meantime, here’s OK Human: crafted in the image of Cuomo’s orchestral-pop hermit heroes, announced and released within the span of two weeks, an album that owes its lyrical content and...
Cuomo first mentioned OK Human prior to the release of Weezer (The Black Album) in a February 2019 interview with the Los Angeles Times. He noted the album was "piano-based" and "very eccentric" and that he had recorded strings for the album at Abbey Road Studios. [2]
Jan 28, 2021 · OK Human provokes a Sliding Doors-like moment of consideration for what could have been: Rivers Cuomo as songwriter and producer, rather than normcore pop star.
