“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 spiritual successor to 2022’s collab release 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. 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.

A1. Hornet Disaster
A2. Meanie
A3. Angel
A4. Take Care of Yourself (Paper-Like Nests)
A5. Hug
A6. Radar Ballet
B1. Green Tea Seaweed Sea
B2. Blood Online
B3. Blanket
B4. Pulka
B5. Heartbeats
C1. Chopland Sedans
C2. Cooperative Calligraphy
C3. Ripped Apart By Hands
C4. Nostalgia Drive Avatar
D1. Aldehydes
D2. Tiara
D3. Agatha's Goldfish (Sparkling Water)
D4. Heaven Smile