It’s probably no accident that Weird Nightmare is releasing its sophomore album, Hoopla, on May 1st via Sub Pop. If ever there was a record primed and ready to inhabit the experiences of a carefree summer (ideally the one after your senior year of high school), it’s this one. Even if your summer is full of life’s painful realities, like funerals or the consequences of tax evasion, Hoopla may yet be the album on repeat wherever you listen to it.
Weird Nightmare is the solo project of Canadian musician Alex Edkins, guitarist and singer of the noise rock trio Metz, which is on an indefinite hiatus. Drop in on almost any point of any of the five studio albums Metz has released on the Sub Pop label since 2012, and you will hear a nearly exact antithesis of what…