“It clicked for me someday, that the album was going to be about hornets,” explains Sputnik, the mononymous songwriter behind the noise-pop mission Weatherday. “It simply made sense to me.” Hornet Catastrophe, Weatherday’s follow-up to their 2019 debut Are available in, and the non secular successor to 2022’s collaborative launch with Asian Glow, Weatherglow, is their most expansive work thus far. In Weatherday’s preliminary bout of impressed writing and recording, they produced over 70 songs for the report, however not earlier than that they had a whole, overarching narrative that was coherently tied again to Sputnik’s earlier work.
Like its predecessor Are available in, Weatherday’s Hornet Catastrophe lurches immediately right into a caustic title observe. The overture is signature Weatherday — pressing, noisy, erratic, and playful — but in addition hints at shifts in songwriting and manufacturing. Lead single “Angel”, backed with “Heartbeats”, demonstrates this evolution in a handy guide a rough, springy emo anthem, whereas its counterpart calls on the longtime affect The Knife in a slinky, downtempo curio that pushes the Weatherday sonic universe in an surprising course.
The motion, shade, and type of hornets are meticulously threaded all through the album’s nineteen-song tracklist, with hectic melody and unpredictable turns giving solution to varied forays: a tribute to Swedish winter in Weatherday’s first official tune in Swedish (“Pulka”); using renaissance flute (“Inexperienced Tea Seaweed Sea”); and the folktronica experimentalism of third single “Ripped Aside By Arms.”
It’s a bustling report with disparate songs every vying for area like wasps in a swarm. It may possibly encourage warning and chaos, however there’s marvel, objective, and a sure familiarity there, too. Weatherday has prolonged the knotted, thrashing maximalism of Are available in by doubling down with the uncompromised, no-stone-unturned nature of Hornet Catastrophe. The place Are available in was the product of an artist looking for their voice, Hornet Catastrophe represents the joyful abandon that comes from having discovered it.
Hornet Catastrophe Tracklist:
- Hornet Catastrophe
- Meanie
- Angel →
- Take Care Of Your self (Paper – Like Nests)
- Hug
- Radar Ballet
- Inexperienced Tea Seaweed Sea
- Blood On-line
- Blanket
- Pulka
- Heartbeats
- Chopland Sedans
- Cooperative Calligraphy
- Ripped Aside By Arms
- Nostalgia Drive Avatar
- Aldehydes
- Tiara
- Agatha’s Goldfish (Glowing Water)
- Heaven Smile
