Honeymoon by Beach Bunny

Honeymoon, Beach Bunny's debut album, arrived on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2020, through Mom + Pop, and it's a record about romance, and mostly about what happens when the shine wears off. Lili Trifilio wrote most of it in 2018, in the middle of a breakup and a pile of other upheavals, and the band cut it in the first half of 2019 at Electrical Audio with Joe Reinhart producing.

Trifilio wrote the words, the whole band built the music, and it bursts out as scrappy, sugar-rushed power pop with pop-punk bite: fizzy guitars from Trifilio and Matt Henkels, Anthony Vaccaro's bass and Jon Alvarado's drums pushing every chorus toward the rafters. "Dream Boy", "Ms. California", "Cloud 9" and "Promises" were the singles, and "Cloud 9" later blew up on TikTok in 2021. Critics praised it and it turned up on year-end lists, but the tour behind it was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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