Weezer are currently gearing up for the release of their new album ‘Van Weezer’ in May, as well as promoting surprise album ‘OK Human’, which came out last month.The band are also planning to release four more albums each inspired by a different specific artist, including Elliott Smith, Franz Ferdinand and… Weezer.The band’s Rivers Cuomo announced the ‘inspired by’ project earlier this month, saying that each record would correspond “to one of the four seasons”, so a winter album inspired by Elliott Smith would feature “lots of loss and despair and [be] kind of quiet”.Quizzed further about that project on a new episode of the ‘Kyle Meredith With…’ podcast – which is out later today – guitarist Brian Bell says that one of the albums will be.
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