“And then there were some songs where I thought, ‘Maybe this could be.’ We’ve all developed musically to where we don’t have to just play fast punk songs.”Īlbum opener “Aphasia” beckons this idea with an unhurried, yet emotive hook. “I’d write a bunch of songs and say, ‘That’s not a Vundabar song,’” Hagen notes of the writing process. Where the scrappy “Antics” and the carefully molded “Smell Smoke” (2017) mark the outer parameters, “Devil for the Fire” melds precision with instinct in their most compelling work yet, capitalizing on the energy of a quick recording session with great attention to melody.
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Since Vundabar broke onto the scene in 2013 with their debut “Antics,” Hagen, as well as longtime friend and drummer Drew McDonald and bassist Zack Abramo, have crafted an undulating series of albums that push the limits of both noise and pop. “That’s what I wanted to call the record: Lost in the sauce,” he says as he lets out a cackle from within his car at a rest stop in Connecticut.
The album’s title, a play on the old adage “I can’t see the forest for the trees,” lays the surrealist groundwork for the nine-track LP “There’s no longer a reference for what’s happening, like you’re lost in the sauce,” Hagen tells me of the album’s concept. “I can’t see the Devil for the fire/ Sitting in the back all quiet and polite,” he sings, voice strained over the Boston trio’s most menacingly slow-burned composition to date. On the title track of Vundabar’s newest album, “ Devil for the Fire” (out April 15), the sounds of frontman Brandon Hagen’s shrieks from within the trudge sound frantic, like someone calling for help from inside a cave.
Left to right: Drew McDonald, Brandon Hagen and Zack Abramo of Vundabar.
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