Listen to Finn Wolfhard’s charming new single Choose the latter, taken from the Stranger Things/Ghostbusters star’s forthcoming solo album Happy Birthday.
Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard has announced his debut solo album, Happy Birthday.
After sharing previous records with his bands Calpurnia and The Aubreys, the 22-year-old is going it alone this time around, and will release his first proper solo effort on June 6 via AWAL. And, interestingly, according to a press release, the nine tracks that now make up Happy Birthday came from a challenge set by Finn himself to write a grand total of 50 songs in 2022.
“I ended up writing a lot of terrible stuff,” he explains, “but a few of those songs I was really proud of went to The Aubreys. I started realising a general theme in a lot of the other songs involving my identity, anxieties, nostalgia, childhood and loneliness. All of that was a part of a bigger puzzle. I knew I wanted to make a record, but I didn’t know with which songs.”
Speaking about his love of music, and using it as a creative outlet in between massive Hollywood jobs, he also shares that, “Music for me has always been something that I can control. And while I’m really grateful for acting and for a long time, it really provided me that peace, it’s just a different thing now that I’m an adult and that it’s a career. I still enjoy it a lot, but when I am by myself and get to play guitar and write a song, it’s a different kind of feeling I’m after.”
Ahead of Happy Birthday’s arrival in the summer, check out excellent lead single Choose the latter below:
Finn has also just announced the following live dates:
Finn Wolfhard Objection! North American tour 2025
June
5 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
6 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Forever Cemetery – Masonic Lodge
8 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
10 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
11 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
12 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre
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