Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard announces solo album: “When I’m by myself and get to play guitar… it’s a different kind of feeling”

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&...

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