After releasing the third installment of their highly acclaimed series ‘Burst & Decay’, the band are in fine form. It features eight reimagined versions of fan favourites.
The American rock group, who formed in 2010, would often be asked to provide a bio for events. In their early years, all Dan Campbell would write was ‘The Wonder Years is a band’. That was it. A lot of time has passed since then, and a lot has changed, although also not that much at the same time. If they could still get away with a six-word bio, they probably would.
However, when it comes to their 2022 album ‘The Hum Goes on Forever’, context is important. The album navigates through particularly dark, cold waters. Written throughout periods of uncertainty in 2021 throughout lockdowns and quarantines, the result became a record that perfectly captures the taught and fraught time it was written. It serves as a revealing representation of how the six lives that constitute The Wonder Years interact with each other.
In May 2025 they released the new album leading with ‘Junebug’ produced by Steve Evetts (Saves The Day). It also featured reworkings of hits including ‘Came Out Swinging’ and ‘I Don’t Know Who I Was Then’.
After working together so many years, frontman Dan Campbell, guitarists Matt Brasch and Casey Cavaliere, drummer Mike Kennedy, bassist Josh Martin and keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Nick Steinborn have all grown together immensely as musicians and individuals. Each of them an essential component of a greater whole – as well as the next evolution of a band that’s never stopped growing, striving and searching for their truth.