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“It clicked for me one day, that the album was going to be about hornets,” explains Sputnik, the mononymous songwriter behind the noise-pop project Weatherday. “It just made sense to me.” 'Hornet Disaster', Weatherday’s follow-up to their 2019 debut 'Come in', and spiritual successor to 2022’s collab release 'Weatherglow', is their most expansive work to date. In Weatherday’s initial bout of inspired writing and recording, they produced over 70 songs for the record, but not before they had a complete, overarching narrative that was coherently tied back to Sputnik’s previous work. It’s a bustling record with disparate songs each vying for space like wasps in a swarm. It can inspire caution and chaos, but there’s wonder, purpose, and a certain familiarity there, too. Weatherday has extended the knotted, thrashing maximalism of 'Come In' by doubling down with the uncompromised, no-stone-unturned nature of 'Hornet Disaster'. Where Come in was the product of an artist searching for their voice, 'Hornet Disaster' represents the joyful abandon that comes from having found it.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hornet Disaster
2. Meanie
3. Angel
4. Take Care Of Yourself (Paper - Like Nests)
5. Hug
6. Radar Ballet
7. Green Tea Seaweed Sea
8. Blood Online
9. Blanket
10. Pulka
11. Heartbeats
12. Chopland Sedans
13. Cooperative Calligraphy
14. Ripped Apart By Hands
15. Nostalgia Drive Avatar
16. Aldehydes
17. Tiara
18. Agatha's Goldfish (Sparkling Water)
19. Heaven Smile