Surgery and Pleasure

Rock · 2025 · 11 tracks · 39m

Surgery and Pleasure

Twitchy, surf-inflected indie rock that balances frantic energy with melodic precision. A record of high-tension guitar work and soaring, anxious vocal leaps.

It's like surf music for people who have never actually been to the beach and drink too much espresso.

A high-wire act between manic rhythmic energy and a deep, underlying sense of existential longing.

Surgery and Pleasure · vs · Vundabar

Restless+0.9σ

Restless saturates this record a touch more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks · 39m

01

Life Is a Movie

3:20

02

Beta Fish

3:40

03

Stallion Running

2:21

04

I Got Cracked

3:40

05

Spades

5:55

06

Let Me Bleed

3:00

07

Feels Like Forever

2:50

08

Hurricane

3:07

09

I Need You

6:22

10

Easy Does It

3:28

11

Why Is It So Hard to Say Goodbye?

2:15

Moments Worth Waiting For

the jarring transition from the skeletal verses to the wall-of-sound chorus on track 4

the six-minute slow burn of track 9 that dissolves into a feedback-laced guitar duel

the way the vocals leap into a fragile, glass-shattering falsetto during the bridge of track 2

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