| Happy Birthday | |
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| Released | June 6, 2025 |
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| Length | 24:39 |
| Label | AWAL |
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| Singles from Happy Birthday | |
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Happy Birthday is the debut studio album by Canadian actor and musician Finn Wolfhard. It was released on June 6, 2025, via AWAL, in CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats. [2] [3] [4]
The first single, "Choose the Latter", noted as a jangly indie pop song, [5] was released on March 6, 2025, alongside a self-directed music video featuring Wolfhard. [2] [6] The song selection process for the album involved Wolfhard challenging himself to write fifty songs before 2022 ended. [5] [7] An introspective album, Happy Birthday was produced by Kai Slater, and incorporates the musical style of lo-fi alongside elements of power pop. [8]
The Objection! Tour
To support the album, Wolfhard embarked on "The Objection! Tour" in June 2025. The tour began on June 05 in Los Angeles, California (one day before the album's release day) and is scheduled to conclude on September 16 in Atlanta, Georgia. The tour visited North American and Canadian cities. Specifically: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Atlanta. Wolfhard announced the dates for the European leg of the tour in July 2025. The tour is visiting Europe in the fall. Specifically, in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, and London. [9] [10] The tour is set to comprise a total of 23 dates.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [8] |
| DIY |  [11] |
| Kerrang! | [12] |
| Mojo | [4] |
Consequence described the album as "an album of tape-saturated indie rock that pulls from Elliott Smith, Ben Lee, Daniel Johnston, and some garage-punk loudness for good measure." [1]
Tim Sendra of AllMusic noted, "The only thing holding Happy Birthday back from being classic is its brevity and maybe lack of ambition; other than that, the quality of the songs, the impact of the vocals, the excellent production, and his ability to reference the past without aping it combine to make it a superb start for a promising solo career." [8]
Kerrang! rated the album four out of five, describing it as "only a dyed-in-the-wool music geek could have made, and that's a beautiful thing." [12] DIY , rating it three and a half stars, stated, "the nine song album offers fans a glimpse into the world of Wolfhard, all via fuzzy indie and alternative country." [11]
John Aizlewood of Mojo assigned it a rating of three stars and remarked, "The string-laden but lo-fi 'You' offers yet another direction and the result is an album that, in the best sense of the term, is all over the place." [4]
All tracks are written by Finn Wolfhard.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Happy Birthday" | 1:31 |
| 2. | "Choose the Latter" | 2:42 |
| 3. | "Eat" | 1:47 |
| 4. | "Objection!" | 2:49 |
| 5. | "Everytown There's a Darling" | 1:58 |
| 6. | "Trailers After Dark" | 3:18 |
| 7. | "Crown" | 4:34 |
| 8. | "You" | 2:16 |
| 9. | "Wait" | 3:44 |
| Total length: | 24:39 | |
Credits adapted from Tidal. [13]