Weezer Confirm Self-Titled Album for August 21, Release Track with Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman

Weezer’s next album arrives August 21. Named simply Weezer, it’s the band’s first full-length in five years, following 2021’s Van Weezer. The news comes with a new single, “We Might As Well Be Strangers,” featuring Karly Hartzman of the North Carolina band Wednesday.

Hartzman’s voice threads through the track, a pairing that feels less like a polished crossover and more like two musicians meeting somewhere between power pop and hard-luck indie. The song’s placement on the record follows the April single “Shine Again,” a track that hinted at the sharper edges producers Klas Ahlund and Kenneth Blume intended when they set out to make, in the band’s recounting, “the most violent Weezer album ever.”

The 10-track album also includes “C.E.O.,” which Rivers Cuomo described to Collider in 2023 as a “totally meta and mind-bending” sequel to the band’s 1994 song “The Sweater Song.” Other material stretches back even further. “Up in the Clouds” started as a demo during sessions for 2014’s Everything Will Be Alright in the End, left unfinished until now. The tracklist, shared alongside gold cover art and an ominous Instagram caption, reads like a list of short stories: “Don’t Make It Weird,” “Hoops,” “Nowhere,” “The LA Sound.”

Weezer will support the album with the Weezer: The Gathering Tour, kicking off in September. The tour name echoes the cryptic note on the album sleeve (“Carry it with you to the Gathering, and witness what follows.”) which is either a bit of earnest sci-fi framing or a wink at the online cult that’s grown around the band’s elaborate internal lore. Cuomo confirmed the album was finished in a Discord message back in February. Last year