The Wonder Years tap Sweet Pill, Origami Angel, Knuckle Puck mems for new acoustic LP, share new song

The Wonder Years recently announced a new Burst & Decay (aka acoustic) tour with a string section and support from Kevin Devine, and they revealed during the announcement that a third volume of Burst & Decay will be released this year too, and that it’ll include a new song for the first time in the series’ history. Now they’ve shared all the details for that and they released the new song, “Junebug.” It’s a full-band acoustic song that’s soft and sentimental but still has plenty of energy, and given how genre-diverse The Wonder Years have become, it works as well on Burst & Decay as it would on a “proper” Wonder Years album. It also comes with a very cool video (produced & edited by Catalogue Co) that projects footage of the band performing onto various outdoor environments. Check it out below.

The other eight songs on Burst & Decay (Volume III) are acoustic versions of songs from throughout The Wonder Years’ discography, and they have three guests on the album: Sweet Pill‘s Zayna Youssef, Origami Angel‘s Ryland Heagy, and Knuckle Puck‘s Joe Taylor. It comes out on May 9 and you can pre-order it here.

The tour begins on May 14 and hits Brooklyn on May 18 at Warsaw. All dates are listed below.

Tracklist
01. Junebug
02. Came Out Swinging (feat. Joe Taylor of Knuckle Puck)
03. Oldest Daughter (feat. Zayna Youssef of Sweet Pill)
04. Wyatt’s Interlude
05. Wyatt’s Song (Your Name)
06. Teenage Parents
07. I Don’t Like Who I Was Then (feat. Ryland Heagy of Origami Angel)
08. The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me
09. Doors I Painted Shut

THE WONDER YEARS / KEVIN DEVINE: 2025 TOUR DATES
May 14 – Pelham, TN @ The Caverns
May 16 – Norwalk, CT @ District Music Hall
May 17 – Worcester, MA @ Palladium
May 18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
May 19 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
May 20 – Baltimore, MD @ The Recher
May 21 – Richmond, VA @ The National
May 23 – Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
May 24 – Tampa, FL @ The Ritz Ybor
May 25 – Atlanta, GA @ Heaven
May 27 – Columbus, OH @ The Bluestone
May 28 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Cathedral Theatre
May 29 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
May 30 – Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theatre
May 31 – Lakewood, OH @ The Roxy
June 1 – Toronto, ON @ The Opera House