If you think finding any information about Radiohead’s next LP is hard – then try being a Weezer fan. Weezer.com’s webmaster and often-called ‘fifth member’, Karl, updated the official site with what appears to be the only real piece of information regarding the group’s as-of-yet untitled sixth album that we’ll be getting for quite some time.

Dateline: an undisclosed location in Southern California, deep inside weezer lines. Im sitting in a large room that normally doesnt serve as a place where bands record their albums, watching weezer, well, record their album. But then this band isnt known for doing things normally. And this album, their 6th, is sounding pretty far from ‘normal’ so far.

There wont be any song titles or other detailed in-progress info in this report, but I can describe the vibe in the room and the sound in the air. The vibe is healthy, full of dialogue, cooperation, forward thinking and interested experimentation. The sound is definitely weezer, but not quite like any weezer I’ve heard before. Or rather, not like any one style that weezer has ever tried, but a fresh combination with some new flavors on top. It sounds as if the band has grown into a new land that they had previously only skirted around the edges of – a land where arrangements are getting adventurous, where song structures, lengths and feels are given plenty of sunlight and fresh water and allowed to grow into what the songs demand. It sounds really cool. Like an excellent music farm. Or perhaps a food co-op.

Cryptic much? The album’s supposedly being released sometime early ‘08, so in the meanwhile enjoy the famous Rivers demo they may or may not end up on the record.

Rivers Cuomo – Pig (2006 Demo).mp3