Weezer Interview: ‘Pacific Daydream is a big step forward into unfamiliar territory but it's not big enough for me’

• The above proverb from ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou inspired the state of mind Weezer maestro Rivers Cuomo wanted to conjure in people listening to the band’s latest album Pacific Daydream. Weezer have been many things over the course of eleven albums and 25 years but breezy dream-pop is not the first thing that comes to mind when talk turns to the Californian quartet. Pacific Daydream is one of the most radical departures from the classic grunge-guitars-meets-Beach-Boys-harmonies template that served the band so consistently well at the dawn of their career.