Weatherday – Hornet Disaster 2LP

Ltd Clear w/ Red Splatter Vinyl.

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, Weatherdays follow-up to their 2019 debut Come in, and spiritual successor to 2022s collab release Weatherglow, is their most expansive work to date. In Weatherdays 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 Sputniks previous work.

Its a bustling record with disparate songs each vying for space like wasps in a swarm. It can inspire caution and chaos, but theres 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.