Weezer’s Scott Shriner and Patrick Wilson on The Gold Album, Renewed Chemistry, and Weezer Movie: Podcast

Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms Weezer have spent enough of the last three decades shape-shifting that every new album arrives with somebody announcing they’ve finally “returned to form.” With The Gold Album, their 20th studio record, bassist Scott Shriner and drummer Patrick Wilson tell Kyle Meredith that the difference is less about chasing The Blue Album than remembering what happens when Weezer actually behaves like a band. After years of sessions built around demos, isolated parts, and tightly managed studio time, the four members started sitting together in an Orange County living room, throwing around riffs, lyrics, complaints, and whatever else might turn into a song. The result is a record with the thick guitars and live-wire punch people associate with classic Weezer, even though nobody entered the room trying to recreate 1994. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts. Find Weezer Tickets Here Wilson traces some of that renewed chemistry back to an unlikely source: the band’s still-mysterious film project, where scenes were built around the members reacting naturally to each other. “It was so collaborative that Rivers was like...