Sweden · emo · noise pop

Weatherday

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Blown-out bedroom emo recorded past the point of clipping — melodies buried in noise that hit harder for having to be dug out.

Weatherday is the solo project of a Swedish musician who records as Sputnik, working alone and largely at home. Sputnik began experimenting with music around 2015 and has since released work under several other aliases, including Five Pebbles, Lola's Pocket PC and Rana Plastic Bubbles, though Weatherday remains the project's most widely heard.

The 2019 album Come In circulated first through online music communities and became something of a cult record before reaching a wider audience through a release on Topshelf Records. It is built from distorted guitars, drum machines and vocals pushed well past clean levels, with melodies still audible underneath the saturation.

The songs draw on emo, noise pop and lo-fi indie rock, and often run long, shifting between quiet passages and sudden bursts of volume. A second album, Hornet Disaster, followed in 2024. Sputnik reveals little about life away from the music, keeping interviews and social media largely free of personal detail; they are non-binary and attracted to all genders.

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