Vundabar are sharing new single “I Need You”, the track is off the band’s forthcoming album Surgery and Pleasure, available March 7 via Loma Vista Recordings (Killer Mike, Militarie Gun, Show Me The Body). This spring, Vundabar will be touring North America and Europe in support of the album.

“I Need You is the centerpiece of the record,” says Vundabar’s singer/guitarist Brandon Hagen. “I think the band and I knew that the song was special. We really needed to nail the way we played it together to get the feel just right and create the slow build the song needed. We rehearsed it for months and then captured it as a live take. It felt very important to have this song on this record and in my life as it feels like a compassionate moment amongst a pretty gnarled batch of tunes. It is an homage to my dad, the interconnectedness of experience and the traverse of life and death.”

“It feels like a triumph and a perfect analogy for what I was working through and processing in my mind, body and heart while writing it. Integrating the lessons from this intense period of change, carrying them forward into my life and having that be reflected in the music.”

Vundaba, includes Brandon Hagen (guitar, vocals) and Drew McDonald (drums), and later joined by Zack Abramo (bass), Vundabar have always been imbued with a fiercely independent spirit, their sound forged in mythical underground Brooklyn venues such as Silent Barn and Shea Stadium. Musically, they exist almost as a fever dream of many genres, melding arty post-punk, tangled math-rock, sun-dappled surf-guitar, shimmering jangle-pop and grunge scuzz into sharp, compact songs that have netted them a wide fan base and a reputation for a killer live show.

Off the road and away from the studio during the pandemic years, Hagen had focused on tending to his father, going through the deeply “psychedelic” experience of parenting his own parent, teaching him to read and walk again. After his father’s death in 2023 shortly after the loss of a long-term relationship, Hagen could’ve been overwhelmed by all the loss. But instead, he found himself faced with the all-encompassing intensity of it all and chose surrender. This led him to new material that was an evolution by way of going home.

“Surgery And Pleasure is a more mature synthesis of all the stuff we’ve explored before,” he says of the album’s fusion of old-school Vundabar energy with a newfound muscularity and slickness. “In a way it feels like a return. It’s grownup Vundabar.”

Vundabar 2025 Tour Bar

March 7 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
March 12 – Asheville NC @ Eulogy^
March 13 – Birmingham AL @ Saturn^
March 15- San Antonio TX @ Paper Tiger^
March 17- El Paso TX @ lowbrow Palace^
March 18 – Santa Fe NM @ Meow Wolf^
March 19 – Tucson AZ @ 191 Toole^
March 21- Pomona CA @ The Glass House^
March 22 – Ventura CA @ Ventura Music Hall^
March 23 – Sacramento CA @ Harlow’s^
March 25 – Bellingham WA @ The Wild Buffalo^
March 26 – Vancouver BC @ The Rickshaw Theatre^
March 28 – Boise ID @ Treefort Music Festival
March 29 – Salt Lake City UT @ Soundwell^
March 31 – Boulder CO @ Fox Theatre^
April 2 – Omaha NE @ The Waiting Room^
April 3 – St Louis MO @ Delmar Hall^
April 4 – Evanston IL @ SPACE^
April 5 – Evanston IL @ SPACE^
April 7 – Columbus OH @ Skully’s Music Diner^
April 8 – Pittsburgh PA @ Thunderbird Café & Music Hall^
April 10 – Allentown PA @ To Be Announced
April 11 – Jersey City NJ @ White Eagle Hall^
April 12 – Woodstock NY @ Bearsville Theater^
May 3 – Glasgow, UK @ King Tut’s
May 4 – Leeds, UK @ Gold Sounds
May 5 – Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute
May 6 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare and Hounds
May 8 – London, UK @ Scala
May 09 – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
May 10 – Brighton, UK @ DUST
May 12 – Brussels, BE @ AB Club
May 13 – Cologne, DE @ Luxor
May 14 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
May 15 – Warsaw, PL @ Hybrydy
May 17 – Hamburg, DE @ Logo
May 18 – Amsterdam, NE @ Paradiso Tollhuisten
May 20 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
May 21 – Lyon, FR @ Le Marche Gare

^ = w/ Yot Club

Pre-order Surgery and Pleasure HERE