Aphasia

While Brandon Hagen was working on the album Devil for the Fire, his father suffered a stroke, which was followed by a diagnosis of aphasia (damage to the parts of the brain involved with language). The title of this song was based directly off of this diagnosis. Aphasia may impact one’s ability to speak, write, and understand others speaking. Read more on Last.fm.

Vundabar is a Boston-based trio that delivers jangly, fuzzed-out math- and surf-tinged indie rock shot through with post-punk spirit. Formed in 2012 by vocalist/guitarist Brandon Hagen and drummer Drew McDonald while still in high school, the duo eventually recruited bassist Zack Abramo and began playing locally. Sporting a melody-rich blend of knotty folk and loud-soft-loud indie rock a la Beantown luminaries Pixies, the band issued their debut album, Antics, in late 2003. They adopted a grittier tone on 2015's Gawk, which added grungey post-punk to the mix. The cathartic and dense Smell Smoke arrived in 2018, delivering an earworm-heavy set that was both bracing and sincere, and in 2020 the trio released their tight and succinct fourth full-length effort, Either Light, which saw them working with a producer, Patrick Hyland (Mitski), for the first time. http://vundabar.bandcamp.com http://facebook.com/vundabar Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.