If 2018 was a whirlwind year for Los Angeles band Weezer, 2019 is already shaping up to be one of their best — the band now celebrate the release of The Black Album, their highly anticipated album of original songs following 2017’s Grammy-nominated Pacific Daydream. 

To celebrate the Black Album’s release into world, the band stopped by Good Morning America and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Following an incredible SNL skit about the band at the end of 2018, Weezer released a record of covers — Weezer (The Teal Album) — in January of this year; the collection has already been streamed well over a hundred million times.  It was also announced this week that The Teal Album will be released on special teal-coloured vinyl for Record Store Day.

Weezer (The Black Album) was produced by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, with whom the band worked for the first time. The album’s songs were entirely written on piano by front man Rivers Cuomo for the first time in Weezer history, creating some of the most satisfyingly awesome songs in the entire hits-filled Weezer catalogue. With band members switching up instruments in the studio, and choruses filtered through Sitek’s own encyclopedic musical references of everything from Gorillaz to Can to Pink Floyd, Weezer (The Black Album) is the bold next step in the winning streak of acclaimed albums they’ve released since 2014.