Photo by Sputnik

Some call Weatherday “emo” and are shoving it into whatever wave we’re on now (Is it the fourth still? Have we officially moved onto the fifth?) I’d digress. “Angel”, one of two lead singles from the enigmatic Swedish songwriter Sputnik’s forthcoming sophomore album, Hornet Disaster, is very noisy and pops off hard while its other preview half, “Heartbeats”, recalls the Knife if the Knife reunited and decided to release something that fucked really hard with Alex G instead of their usual icy synth persuasions. It’s noise-pop to the nth degree, and when your album flies around and buzzes to the sounds of such an aggressive insect, it makes sense that you’d want to come out of a gate sounding just as mad as one. Despite the many winter references that lessen the probability of seeing such a vespa emerge during these coldest points of the year, Sputnik’s imagination of the two-winged creature in humanized sense makes it possible. “You lie down in the snow / Complaining about your boring wardrobe / How you want to die sometimes / And then about a YouTube channel.” That snow angel on the ground has wings for sure. Just don’t look for a halo, because you might get stung…

Weatherday’s Hornet Disaster will be released March 29th on Topshelf Records.