“It clicked for me at some point, 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, 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 an entire, overarching narrative that was coherently tied again to Sputnik’s earlier work.
Like its predecessor Are available, 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 sudden path.
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 technique to numerous forays: a tribute to Swedish winter in Weatherday’s first official music in Swedish (“Pulka”); using renaissance flute (“Inexperienced Tea Seaweed Sea”); and the folktronica experimentalism of third single “Ripped Aside By Fingers.”
It’s a bustling report with disparate songs every vying for area like wasps in a swarm. It may 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 by doubling down with the uncompromised, no-stone-unturned nature of Hornet Catastrophe. The place Are available was the product of an artist trying to find 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 Fingers
- Nostalgia Drive Avatar
- Aldehydes
- Tiara
- Agatha’s Goldfish (Glowing Water)
- Heaven Smile
