Finn Wolfhard and Malcolm Craig Launch New Band The Aubreys With EP "Soda & Pie"
Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard has accomplished a lot in his 17 years, from playing a lead role in a majorly successful Netflix series to starring in It to modeling for Saint Laurent. When he’s not at work acting, Finn is also a musician, and his new band, The Aubreys, just released its first EP, a three-song collection called Soda & Pie.
Soda & Pie is a short and sweet mix of guitar-driven indie rock, perfect for playing loud in the car or for adding to your go-to playlist. “It’s out,” Finn shared on Instagram on Friday. “Thank you to all of our friends who supported us during and after we recorded this. We are so grateful.”
The band is comprised of Finn and drummer Malcolm Craig, who played with him in their previous band Calpurnia. (Calpurnia split up in late 2019.) Finn and Malcolm have been playing together for years; according to Fast Company, the two starred in a 2014 music video together and started jamming together shortly after, then formed Calpurnia.
Calpurnia released an EP, but balancing music and acting proved to be difficult, and the band eventually split. “It got to the point where I was so unhappy doing it,” Finn told Fast Company. “The music part should be the fun part of my life. There’s no point in doing it if it’s not fun.”
After the breakup, Finn and Malcolm kept jamming together and eventually formed The Aubreys. “Initially our band was called the Audreys and that was because it was named after a childhood cat that I had,” Finn explained to FC. “But there’s another band called the Audreys, so we just swapped the ‘d’ with the ‘b’ and we thought it just sounded cool. And we kind of created these alternate versions of ourselves named Aubrey and Aubrey.”
Finn said things will be different for The Aubreys than they were with Calpurnia, with far less pressure to do it all. “The only people [Craig and I] have to answer to are ourselves,” he told Fast Company. “That’s a really great thing. There’s no pressure to put out a song. There’s no pressure to write a song. It’s just fun releasing music again. It’s much more an organic thing.”
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