Bunky Becky Birthday Boy


Bunky Becky Birthday Boy is the sixth studio album by American musical duo Sleigh Bells. It was released on April 4, 2025, by Mom + Pop Music.
The first released project since the duo's 2021 album, Texis, the album was preceded by the single "Bunky Pop", which was released on February 19, 2025. The single was followed by a music video featuring Dylan Gelula, and directed by Derek Miller and Alex Ross Perry.

Reception

Pitchfork rated the album 5.4 out of ten and describing it as "clean and crisp where it should spin out, bubbly where it should be brash."
Billboard referred to it as the duo's "latest day-glo furnace blast of joyous, raucous metal pop." Paste Magazine assigned it a rating of 7.6 out of ten and called the album "a nimble late-career return to form that enlivens their signature loudness with a renewed sense of spirit." Sputnikmusic commented "This thing throws itself into any number of saccharine earworms and goonish singalongs, its brash arena chords a good match for some of the duo's most energizing material to date."
Heather Phares of AllMusic remarked "By giving equal time to headbanging and heartbreak, they've made an immensely satisfying album that's among their finest." New Noise Magazine noted "On the 11-song album, the listener journeys through fun twists and turns with something new around each corner."
The New York Times wrote in its review of the album, describing it as "a recombinant bash, slamming together selected elements of loud and louder styles — punk, metal, grunge, hip-hop, electro, glam, garage-rock," while The Skinny referred to it as "a return to the immediacy that made Sleigh Bells' name – but you wonder whether they had to sacrifice quite so much of the nuance of their last couple of albums in the process."

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.

Sleigh Bells

Additional contributors