Ecca Vandal announces Australian headline tour this November
PRAISE FOR Ecca Vandal
“She logged off, locked in and made exactly the record she wanted to make. No chronically online takes, no outside opinion, just her, figuring out what she wanted to say. What remains is powerful mantras projected with ferocious energy”
“A major player in the future of alternative music”
“A punchy rejection of ‘faux-sincerity’ and music being reduced to TikTok-able snippets”
“The raucous record is playful, brazen, and proudly disillusioned by anything and everything algorithm-friendly”
“She can scream, sing or spit bars with precision over reggaeton beats as easily as snarling punk rock. Second album LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW covers every corner”
“It might seem like Ecca Vandal has come out of nowhere, but the multi-talented artist has long been creating art designed to disrupt”
“The genre-defying Melbourne musician went her own way – now she counts Travis Barker and Tony Hawk among her fans”
“One of the most highly anticipated albums in Australian music is here”
ECCA VANDAL AUSTRALIA TOUR
Fri 6 Nov – The Brightside – Magadjin / Brisbane [TIX HERE]
Sat 7 Nov – Howler – Naarm / Melbourne [TIX HERE]
Fri 13 Nov – Oxford Art Factory – Eora / Sydney [TIX HERE]
Pre-sale: Wed Jun 10 – Thu Jun 11
General on sale: Fri Jun 12 at 11am
Tickets available via eccavandal.com
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW LP is out now digitally,
stream/pre-order the physical release here.
Fresh off the release of her Loma Vista Recordings debut LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW and her late night TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Ecca Vandal has announced her Australian homecoming, with a run of headline shows this November. Tickets are on sale Fri Jun 12 at 11am local. SIGN UP FOR PRE-SALE ACCESS HERE.
Taking to Brisbane’s The Brightside, Melbourne’s Howler and Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory, the tour caps off a relentless year for Vandal that included her Coachella debut, a national run supporting Deftones and a packed UK/EU season of headline and festival dates in support of her new album. Anchored in punk, LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW sees Ecca Vandal reveling in her full creative powers — polyglot influences from bhangra to hardcore to alt hip hop, held tight by pure punk heart. “I find empowerment in being loud and noisy,” Vandal says, “especially as a woman in this global moment who grew up in a culture that told me I could not be those things.”
Recorded and produced by Richie Buxton and Ecca Vandal in Buxton’s childhood bedroom, LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW was the product of nearly two years of deliberate disconnection. “We cut out everything that didn’t serve us — the timelines, the metrics, the pressure to ‘stay visible’ online,” Vandal says. “We tuned out of the feed and turned inwards. In Richie’s childhood bedroom, we built a tiny home studio, four walls that became a universe. The internet was painfully slow, so we were truly disconnected from the online game… that little room became our whole world for nearly two years. It held all our chaos and all our clarity, a little ‘playpen’ where we could live, play and experiment like teenagers again. We wanted to celebrate long-form, the idea of an album as a whole body of work, while the world was chasing 15-second snippets and algorithm friendly noise.”
Her message – when you don’t see yourself represented in music or culture, become your own reference – combined with grit, intuition and a fiercely DIY ethos has proven to be a winning combination. Emphatically supported across the globe LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW landed triple j’s coveted feature album amongst placements with The Guardian, NME, Kerrang, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, Billboard, Alt Press, CLASH, Pitchfork through to tastemakers as Vogue, KNOTFEST, Diet Paratha and many more.
A musical auteur, Ecca Vandal defies categorisation, seamlessly weaving together punk, hip-hop, jazz, soul, trip-hop, and electronic influences into a sound that’s bold, dynamic, and entirely her own. Spending her formative years as a jazz musician, her passion for improvisation led her to fall in love with the DIY abandon of punk and foster an ability to effortlessly balance soulful melodies with raw, unapologetic power. Ecca would go on to soar with her self-titled debut album, which drew universal acclaim — Rolling Stone delivered 4.5 stars for the “vibrant, dazzling collection of tunes,” while NME lauded its “absolutely banging, genre-bending anthems.” Ecca Vandal brings unrelenting energy to the stage with a history of touring alongside global heavyweights, as well as appearances at a host of iconic festivals including Reading and Leads (UK), AfroPunk (FR), Download (UK), Splendour In The Grass (AU), Falls Festival (AU) and Laneway (AU). Neither her sound nor persona are fixed for easy consumption. Political, rebellious and tenacious, with a voice demanding to be heard — Ecca Vandal is magnetism personified and exactly what we need right now.
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