Weezer Unveils Hurley Artwork, First Single

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Weezer - HurleyWeezer have unveiled the artwork for their upcoming eighth LP – and first Epitaph Records release – ‘Hurley.’ The artwork consists of a face picture of actor Jorge Garcia, aka Hurley from Lost.  Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo said 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. 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.”

The artwork can be seen below along with a new song from the album, Memories, that was recently premiered on Los Angeles, CA’s Star 98.7.

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