The Wonder Years - Sister Cities [Book & LP (Shinjuku Street Splatter col LP)]

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP + Book
Catalogue No.: HR2472-0
Barcode: 0790692247202
Release Date: 23 May 2025
Genre: Rock

 Following ‘No Closer To Heaven’, The Wonder Years released ‘Sister Cities’, their most transformative work to date.
 Recorded at Sunset Sound with Joe Chiccarelli (Manchester Orchestra, The Shins, Spoon) and Carlos de la Garza (Jimmy Eat World, Paramore), ‘Sister Cities’ is an album about distance, connectivity and the way humanity towers above boundaries.
 What The Wonder Years do so effortlessly on ‘Sister Cities’ is no small feat; through poetic lyricism, ambient guitar swells and Jimmy Eat World-levels of crashing momentum. On ‘Sister Cities’, they take a massive, unexpected leap forward both sonically and thematically, now speaking confidently to the world at large.
 Vocalist Dan Campbell on the inspiration behind ‘Sister Cities’: “It started with journals and photos. We started by documenting. We didn’t know where it would go or if it would go anywhere at all, but we wrote it all down. We took photos of everything. And
then when it came to put it altogether, we had this catalog of how we felt and what it looked like and sounded like and we built from there. Figuring out what the moments were that stayed with me the most. When did I feel most connected to the people around me and why? What did being in this place during this moment teach me? It was a difficult year personally and globally and we experienced that through this lens of being everywhere but home, kind of floating through places and seeing how being there altered our perspective.”
 The album is housed in a 200-page, 13”x13”, full-colour book that includes photos, artwork, journal entries and lyrics.
 LP pressed onto Shinjuku Street Splatter coloured vinyl.
 “An overpowering sense of earnestness and vulnerability.” - Pitchfork
 “There is a lifetime yelled in every punk song, captured in the desperate and catchy ‘Sister Cities’.” - NPR Music
 “From the first notes, it’s already clear that The Wonder Years are stepping into uncharted territory.” - UPROXX

Tracklisting
Raining in Kyoto
Pyramids of Salt
It Must Get Lonely
Sister Cities
Flowers Where Your Face Should Be
Heaven's Gate (Sad & Sober)
We Look Like Lightning
The Ghosts of Right Now
When the Blue Finally Came
The Orange Grove
The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me