"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 the spiritual successor to 2022's collaborative release with Asian Glow, 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.

Like its predecessor Come in, Weatherday's Hornet Disaster lurches instantly into a caustic title track. The overture is signature Weatherday -- urgent, noisy, erratic, and playful -- but also hints at shifts in songwriting and production. Lead single "Angel", backed with "Heartbeats", demonstrates this evolution in a snappy, springy emo anthem, while its counterpart calls on the longtime influence The Knife in a slinky, downtempo curio that pushes the Weatherday sonic universe in an unexpected direction.

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The movement, color, and form of hornets are meticulously threaded throughout the album's nineteen song tracklist, with hectic melody and unpredictable turns giving way to various forays: a tribute to Swedish winter in Weatherday's first official song in Swedish ("Pulka"); the use of renaissance flute ("Green Tea Seaweed Sea"); and the folktronica experimentalism of third single "Ripped Apart By Hands."

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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.

Hornet Disaster Tour 2025 (get tickets)

• March 19, 2025 - Boston, MA, @ Center for Arts at the Armory
• March 20, 2025 - New York, NY, @ Bowery Ballroom
• March 22, 2025 Philadelphia, PA, @ PhilaMOCA
• March 23, 2025 Washington D.C., @ Pearl Street
• March 24, 2025 Raleigh, NC @ Kings
• March 25, 2025 - Atlanta, GA, @ Aisle 5
• March 27, 2025 - Houston, TX, @ White Oak Music Hall
• March 28, 2025 - Dallas, TX, @ Club Dada
• March 29, 2025 - Austin, TX, @ Parish
• March 30, 2025 - San Antonio, TX, @ Paper Tiger
• April 01, 2025 - Phoenix, AZ, @ Valley Bar
• April 02, 2025 - Tucson, AZ, @ Club Congress
• April 03, 2025 - San Diego, CA, @ Soda Bar
• April 04, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Cid
• April 05, 2025 - San Francisco, CA, @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall
• April 06, 2025 - Sacramento, CA, @ Harlow's
• April 08, 2025 - Portland, OR, @ Polaris Hall
• April 09, 2025 - Seattle, WA, @ Madame Lou's
• April 10, 2025 - Vancouver, BC @ Green Auto

Weatherday Europe Tour 2025 (get tickets)

• July 2, 2025 - Stockholm, SE, @ Hus 7
• July 3, 2025 - Gothernburg, SE, @ Fängelset
• July 4, 2025 - Malmö, SE, @ Plan B
• July 6, 2025 - Herford, DE, @ Flafa
• July 9, 2025 - Berlin, DE, @ Neue Zukunft
• July 10, 2025 - Warsaw, PL, @ Voodoo
• July 11, 2025 - Kutná Hora, CZ, @ Creepy Teepee Festival
• July 13, 2025 - Modena, IT, @ Third Impact Festival
• July 14, 2025 - Milan, IT, @ Barrios Bar
• July 15, 2025 - Munich, DE, @ Sunny Red
• July 17, 2025 - Bonn, DE, @ Namenlos
• July 18, 2025 - Eindhoven, NL, @ Altstadt
• July 19, 2025 - Paris, FR, @ Supersonic
• July 21, 2025 - Birmingham, UK, @ Hare & Hounds
• July 22, 2025 - Leeds, UK, @ Headrow House
• July 23, 2025 - Glasgow, UK, @ Hug & Pint
• July 24, 2025 - Manchester, UK, @ Star and Gasrter
• July 25, 2025 - Bristol, UK, @ Rough Trade
• Juy 26, 2025 - London, UK, @ The Lexington
• July 27, 2025 - Brighton, UK, @ The Prince Albert