Weatherday - Hornet Disaster (CLEAR WITH RED SPLATTER “BLOOD ONLINE” VINYL)

Topshelf Records

£33.42

Format: Color Vinyl
Catalogue No.: LPTSR278C
Barcode: 634457199910
Release Date: 21 Mar 2025
Genre: Indie & Alternative / Indie & Lo-Fi

2LP, Clear with Red Splatter Blood Online Vinyl, Obi, Gatefold, Insert, Polybag [w/ download card]

"“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