Please note this is a preorder and wont be dispatched until 12/2/20. So 2020 was going to be the year of Van Weezer -- the big riffs rock album Weezer madeas an homage to the metal bands they loved growing up -- until, thanks to the globalpandemic, it suddenly wasn't. The entire time, however, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomowas busy at the piano, writing a very different album that referenced another vitalmusical touchstone of his youth: The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds. Throughout the summerof Covid-19, he and the band -- along with a 38 piece orchestra -- chipped away at maskedrecording sessions until the record was complete. The result is an album called OKHuman -- a cheeky nod to Radiohead's technophobic future-trip OK Computer, butsounding nothing at all like that record. Taking the listener bit by bit through parts ofCuomo';s every day, it's a Technicolor symphonic spree that meditates on how over-and-under-connected we all are, particularly in a year where we can see each other withgreater ease, but actually can't physically be near each other at all. OK Human is alsopacked to the brim with some of the best, most personal songs Cuomo has written in thelast decade, all of which shine brighter and bolder with splashes of string and hornarrangements courtesy of album producer Jake Sinclair and arranger Rob Mathes. It'shard to imagine any other band who came up in the alt haze of the 90s creating a simplyperfect orchestral pop album, but that is exactly what Weezer's done; OK Human is atestament to the excellent, enduring melodies Cuomo has written since Weezer'sinception, and the ones he continues to write today.
