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• Listen to "Ripped Apart By Hands" →
• Hornet Disaster out via Topshelf Records on March 19th, 2025 (digital, vinyl, cd, cassette)
• stream / pre-order Hornet Disaster →
• Recommended if you like: Number Girl, The Microphones, Brave Little Abacus, The Knife, lo-fi noise pop with high-res emotionality

p: Sputnik

"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.

On their latest single "Ripped Apart By Hands", Sputnik taps into a sound of moody, experimental folktronica--providing one of the quieter and more introspective moments on Hornet Disaster.

Weatherday writes this about "Ripped Apart By Hands":

"Ripped Apart By Hands" shows the narrator in turmoil, being completely overwhelmed and fed up. The song's jagged instrumentation is supposed to chug at a pace that feels unwell, like it's about to break apart. The instruments change as the narrator bursts towards the end of the song, ending with a final chorus that shows how the familiar sounds different now. There seems to be relief, of some sort, at the end of the spectacle.

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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