It’s Ecca Vandal’s flip, time to concentrate.
Born in South Africa of Sri Lankan heritage, the genre-bending impartial artist is now very a lot at house in Melbourne, Australia. American audiences obtained a more in-depth look when Vandal made her debut at Coachella. Right here’s a expertise who effortlessly fuses rock with hip-hop, punk, jazz, digital and just about something she needs, a performer with extra uncooked power than an area on grand closing day.
On Wednesday evening, Might 20, one other debut as Vandal made her first look on U.S. TV with a strong efficiency on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell.
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Sporting blue-toned hair and main a decent backing tandem of electrical guitar and drums, Vandal ripped by means of “Cruising to Self Soothe,” lifted from her forthcoming studio album LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW, due out Friday, Might 22 through Loma Vista Recordings.
The gathering was recorded and produced by Richie Buxton and Vandal in Buxton’s childhood bed room in bayside Melbourne. “We lower out all the pieces that didn’t serve us, the timelines, the metrics, the stress to ‘keep seen’ on-line. We tuned out of the feed and turned inwards,” she has stated of the challenge.
In Richie’s room, they constructed a tiny house studio. “4 partitions that turned a universe,” she recounts. “The Web was painfully sluggish, so we have been actually disconnected from the web sport.”
Distant from their inner-city associates, and distractions, that little room “turned our complete world for practically two years. It held all our chaos and all our readability, a little bit ‘playpen’ the place we may reside, play and experiment like youngsters once more. We began making issues with our palms once more, tangible, imperfect, and actual,” Vandal enthuses. “We wished to rejoice long-form, the thought of an album as an entire physique of labor, whereas the world was chasing 15-second snippets and algorithm pleasant noise.”
The Ecca Vandal expertise has been lived on stage, with spots at Camp Flog Gnaw and assist slots with the likes of Limp Bizkit, Queens of the Stone Age, IDLES, The Prodigy, and, most lately, Deftones. The 2026 U.Ok. and Continental Europe summer season competition circuit beckons.
Try dates beneath and watch Ecca Vandal’s efficiency on Kimmel.
Ecca Vandal’s 2026 U.Ok. and Europe tour dates
June 3 — Influence Pageant at Tauron Enviornment, Krakow, PL
June 5 — Rock im Park Pageant, Nürnberg, DE
June 6 — Rock am Ring Pageant, Nurburgring, DE
June 10 — Rock For Individuals, Hradec Kralove, CZ
June 15 — Launch Pageant, Athens, GR
June 19 — Pinkpop Pageant, Landgraaf, NE
June 20 — Southside Pageant, Neuhausen ob Eck, DE
June 21 — Hurricane Pageant, Scheeßel, DE
June 23 — Sparkassen Park, Mönchengladbach, DE^
June 28 — Outbreak Pageant, Manchester, UK
July 2 — Roskilde Pageant, Roskilde, DK
July 4 — Rock Werchter Pageant, Werchter BE
July 5 — Les Eurockeennes, Belforte, FR
Aug. 18 — Parkbuhne Wuhlheide, Berlin, DE
Aug. 20 — Open Air Gampel, Gampel, CH
Aug. 23 — All Factors East x Outbreak Fest, London, UK
Aug. 25 — IMMA, Dublin, IE
Aug. 27 — Edinburgh Summer season Classes, Edinburgh, UK
