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Tuesday 10 August 10:33 a.m.
US rockers Weezer have revealed the cover for their upcoming eighth studio album, which they're calling 'Hurley'. And in following on from their odd last album cover (remember the flying dog?), the guys have opted for a Hollywood celeb this time round - Jorge Garcia aka. Hurley from LOST.
Weezer frontmant Rivers Cuomo tells Spinner.com, the album's name came easily once they settled on the photo:
"We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album: 'Heavy Mental,' 'Smaller Than Life,'" Cuomo says. "I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, 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."
Unfortunately for LOST fanatics, the album doesn't feature any songs about the Man In Black, the Jack/Kate/Sawyer love triangle or the Smoke Monster... and Rivers admits he only started watching the cult TV show recently: "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," he says. "I really like the show though."
'Hurley' is due out Sept 14.
Check out the first single off it, 'Memories'...