Weatherday
November 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM · Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT
Lineup: Weatherday
<p style="margin:0;">All Ages</p><p style="margin:0;">--</p><p style="margin:0;">“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.”</p><p style="margin:0;"><i>Hornet Disaster</i>, Weatherday’s follow-up to their 2019 debut <i>Come in</i>, and spiritual successor to 2022’s collab release <i>Weatherglow</i>, 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.</p><p style="margin:0;">Like its predecessor <i>Come in</i>, Weatherday’s <i>Hornet Disaster</i> 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 longtime influence The Knife in a slinky, downtempo curio that pushes the Weatherday sonic universe in an unexpected direction.</p><p style="margin:0;">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.”</p><p style="margin:0;">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 <i>Come in</i> by doubling down with the uncompromised, no-stone-unturned nature of <i>Hornet Disaster</i>. Where <i>Come in</i> was the product of an artist searching for their voice, <i>Hornet Disaster</i> represents the joyful abandon that comes from having found it.</p>
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