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 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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