In a career that’s spanned over 20 years in the music industry, Hayley Williams has become the biggest female name in pop punk with band Paramore, established herself as a radio-dominating solo artist, and now she’s trying something very, very different with her new launch of ‘Power Snatch’.
From her first steps into the music business, Hayley Williams had the eyes of the industry on her. In 2003, Atlantic Records signed her as a solo artist at the age of just 14, but she opted instead to begin her career by forming Paramore with school friends and recording more rebellious pop punk music. By the time debut album ‘All We Know Is Falling’ came out in 2005, she was still only 16 and was embarking on tours of the US with established acts.
Paramore went on to have significant lineup changes across 6 studio albums, with Williams always the consistent core that the band was built around, before their indefinite hiatus was announced in 2025. Once the touring cycle for 2017 studio album ‘After Laughter’ had finished, she had expressed a need to take a break from writing and touring. By 2019, she’d used this respite to create her debut solo album ‘Petals For Armor’, which came out in 2020 to mass critical acclaim. On the record, Williams sang as well as playing keyboards, guitar and drums on various tracks.
William’s followed up with 2 further solo albums, ‘Flowers for Vases/Descansos’ in 2021, and last year’s ‘Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party’ which was met with rave reviews and holds a score of 91 out of 100 on review site Metacritic. She had evolved her previous Paramore and solo music sounds into a pop rock behemoth, with diverse influences and impeccable audio fidelity. The album was co-written with and produced by Daniel James, a record producer she had worked with in the past.
Now in 2026, Hayley Williams has revealed new band Power Snatch, working again with Daniel James. And where her recent releases had valued sharp songwriting and clean production, their releases so far have moved into a grungier style, with a very deliberate muddy, lo-fi tone to them.
The first single ‘Assignment’ appeared on Apple Music last week, before a three track demo was made available to purchase on Bandcamp yesterday. Rather mysteriously, fans swiftly discovered an Instagram account created in July of last year, with a single cryptic post featuring audio from song ‘DUH’, suggesting that this announcement had been a while in the making.
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Now after demonstrating another new musical venture while still celebrating the success of ‘Ego Death’, Williams will have no time to rest on her laurels – she embarks on her first solo tour in support of the album starting in the US this March. The sold-out ‘Hayley Williams At A Bachelorette Party’ road trip comes to the UK in June, hitting venues in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin.
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