Finn Wolfhard announces debut solo album, Happy Birthday

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Happy Birthday marks Wolfhard’s first solo release after several releases with his bands Calpurnia and The Aubreys. The album grew out of Wolfhard’s personal challenge to pen 50 songs by the end of 2022.

"I ended up writing a lot of terrible stuff, but a few of those songs I was really proud of went to the Aubreys," Wolfhard explains. "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 of his acting career, starring in Stranger Things plus two Ghostbusters reboots, he explains that these creative outlets “were a way for me to establish control for myself and a little bit of peace. 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.”

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