Spirit! (LP)

SPIRIT!, the third LP from HUNNY, is about embracing the weird--an album born from uncertainty and built on instinct. It's a testament to breaking free, starting over, and tuning out the noise. Now the sole project of longtime frontman Jason Yarger, HUNNY has shed its past shape to become something more fully itself.

SPIRIT! doesn't reinvent the wheel so much as keep it spinning forward. Across 15 tracks, the album--co-pro duced by Yarger and former bassist Kevin Grimmett with drums by former drummer Joey Anderson--leans into the sounds that have always lit HUNNY's fuse: hooky post-punk, gleaming synths, and shout-along choruses praised by Alternative Press, Kerrang!, and Rock Sound. But it also pushes further--into abstraction, playfulness, and freedom.

It's the latest turn for HUNNY, a band long celebrated for shapeshifting through genres and decades with style on fan-favourite releases like Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. (2019) and new planet heaven (2023)--always evolving, yet unmistakably themselves. That dynamic energy carries into their high-voltage live show, sharpened on tours with Joywave, Mom Jeans, Waterparks, and State Champs.