Ecca Vandal Announces Long-Awaited New Album 'LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW'

Ecca Vandal

It’s been nine years between albums, but Ecca Vandal has officially announced that her long-awaited second album, LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW, is set for release on Friday, 22 May.

The South African-born, Melbourne-based artist of Sri Lankan heritage set the music world ablaze with her early releases in 2015 and 2016. The following year, she dropped her debut self-titled album, which featured the single Price of Living, featuring Refused’s Dennis Lyxzén and letlive.’s Jason Aalon Butler.

Vandal supported Incubus on their 2018 run across Australia, collaborated with Birdz on the track Place of Dreams, and performed at the inaugural Good Things Festival. In 2019, she appeared on Hilltop Hoods’ album, The Great Expanse.

In 2021, Vandal featured on the reimagined version of Void Of Vision’s track, Decay. That was the last time fans heard her voice until 2024, when she returned with the crushing single, BLEED BUT NEVER DIE.

From there, Vandal launched into a steady string of single releases, dropping punk and hip-hop-inspired tracks including THEN THERE’S ONE, CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE, MOLLY, and BLEACH. Following the release of CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE, she was named the special guest on Limp Bizkit’s 2025 European tour.

Today, she unleashes the energetic new number, SORRY! CRASH!, which you can check out below.

“I thought I’d hit rock bottom when I wrote this, but realised there isn’t really a rock bottom at all - you just keep falling,” Vandal explained in a statement. “This song is that moment where you stop pretending that you’re okay, ‘SORRY! I’m about to CRASH! the f*ck out!’”

Ecca Vandal invites fans into her world as she returns to her roots on LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW. The album was made completely DIY and offline, channelling Millennial nostalgia for a different era, featuring community-led, genre-agnostic music that combines alternative music and skateboarding culture.

The album is about cutting ties with what drains your energy. “The systems. The trends. The illusions of connection. It’s about choosing silence over spectacle, finding empowerment through letting go,” she said. “It’s a space we still protect at all costs, especially now more than ever, while the world is on fire and distraction has become our default state.” 

In the lead-up to the album’s release, Vandal will open Deftones’ arena tour of Australia alongside Interpol.

Detailing the album, Vandal shared that it was recorded with her collaborator, Richie Buxton, in a “tiny home studio” in bayside Melbourne.

“We cut out everything that didn’t serve us, the timelines, the metrics, the pressure to ‘stay visible’ online,” she revealed. “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.”

She continued:

Deep in bayside Melbourne, far from our inner-city friends, 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 started making things with our hands again, tangible, imperfect, and real. 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.

So we left behind the room packed with industry chatter and opinions, and created our own little haven. And honestly, it was magic. The best decision we’ve ever made.

You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.