After forming the band as teens in 2013 and putting out four albums by the turn of the decade, Boston indie rock trio Vundabar enjoyed a second wind when their six-year-old single “Alien Blues” went viral on social platforms in 2021. With new fans in tow, the group bolstered their engaging mix of surf/garage rock, post-punk, and angular indie rock with more electronics on the next year’s Devil for the Fire LP.
Their sixth album, Surgery and Pleasure, finds Vundabar at their most urgent and visceral yet, as they lean into brisker tempos, 2000s indie rock, and post-punk postures for their Loma Vista label debut. It kicks off with the dingy and driving “Life Is a Movie” (“There is no story, just an endless roiling ocean”), a partly shouted, anxious…

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