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The profile · researched 6 September 2026
The Neighbourhood’s second life: a darker band built for arenas
Formed in suburban Los Angeles in 2011 and vaulted to global recognition by Sweater Weather, The Neighbourhood returned from hiatus with a new album in November 2025 and, in 2026, a full‑scale arena tour whose set tells the story of their past and present. Their comeback has drawn big houses, strong reviews and renewed scrutiny.
California origins, grayscale identity
The Neighbourhood came together in Newbury Park, California, in 2011 around singer Jesse Rutherford with guitarists Jeremy Freedman and Zach Abels and bassist Mikey Margott. Their early EP I’m Sorry… (2012) introduced a moody guitar‑and‑808 palette that coalesced on their debut album I Love You. (April 2013). Sweater Weather, issued the previous year and pushed hard through 2013, climbed to No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart in June 2013 and went on to cross over to the Hot 100. The grayscale aesthetic – artwork, wardrobe and lighting – became part of the band’s identity as they scaled from clubs to festival stages at speed. [AllMusic’s biography and chart history confirm the formation and chart peak; Billboard’s trade pages from 2013 record the ascent.]
The run that followed defined their catalogue: Wiped Out! (2015), the eponymous The Neighbourhood (2018) and the compilation‑style Hard to Imagine the Neighbourhood Ever Changing (2018), then the left‑turn concept record Chip Chrome & the Mono‑Tones (2020). A sped‑up version of Sweater Weather later became a viral audio on TikTok in 2020, extending the song’s life and pulling a new, younger audience into the band’s orbit – a detail even the Los Angeles Times noted while reporting on the group.
Hiatus, controversy and the road back
After a heavy 2010s schedule, the band announced an indefinite pause in late 2021. In November 2022, they dismissed drummer Brandon Fried after public allegations of sexual assault by María Zardoya of The Marías; Fried apologised and said he would seek help for substance abuse. Two years on, as the group prepared new music, Fried’s name reappeared in line‑ups and press materials, indicating a reinstatement that has divided parts of the fanbase. Rolling Stone en Español framed the return plainly – the band ‘reintegration’ of its drummer – and official tour and media materials through 2026 have again listed him among the members.
On 14 November 2025, the group released (((((ultraSOUND))))), their first album in five years, through Warner Records, trailing singles Private, OMG and Lovebomb. The material leans towards a cleaner, melodic alt‑pop with Manchester‑leaning guitars, credited in part to renewed work with Justyn Pilbrow and Jono Dorr. A deluxe edition, (((((ultraSOUND)))))+, arrived on 20 February 2026, expanding the tracklist to 20 songs.
The work that matters now: (((((ultraSOUND))))), then (((((ultraSOUND)))))+
AllMusic’s review of (((((ultraSOUND)))))) heard a band circling back to what first connected: late‑night melodies shadowed by minor‑key synths and softly insistent hooks, with Rutherford’s unhurried tenor foregrounded. The sequencing underscores that point, opening with Hula Girl and OMG and reserving glassier textures – Daisy Chain, Planet – for the mid‑album drift. The 2026 deluxe version folds in newer pieces (among them Lil Ol Me, Good Grief and Mute) and has become the practical source for the arena setlist, from which the band draws across the tour.
The campaign to support the record has been unusually explicit about its arc. When Live Nation announced the tour on 3 November 2025, the note emphasised a back‑to‑basics tone – ‘stripping back the gloss and trusting feeling over flash’ – and paired the dates with a video for Private. Pollstar logged the itinerary the same day: a March 2026 launch in Austin, an East Coast run, Europe in late April to mid‑May, Oceania and Asia in July, Mexico in late September, then a West Coast swing into October. Venues and promoters subsequently added dates citing rapid sell‑throughs.
The Wourld Tour in 2026: where it’s been and what’s coming
The tour opened at Austin’s Moody Center on 28 March 2026; JamBase reported the show as a sell‑out and noted multiple live debuts from the new record. In April the band hit TD Garden, Boston (8 April), where The Harvard Crimson observed how the performance leaned into immersion – dim washes of light, camera work on a giant screen, and a deliberately structured ‘ballad section’ introduced by on‑screen text. May brought the first London arena play at The O2 (15 May), then Dublin. A run to Australia followed in July, including Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne (10–11 July), before the tour pivoted towards autumn with a European return and Mexico (Guadalajara 21 September; Monterrey 23 September; Mexico City 25–26 September).
As of 6 September 2026, the European late‑summer leg has just passed through London again (OVO Arena Wembley, 4 September, billed with Nessa Barrett and Noise Dept.). North America follows: Vancouver (2 October), Seattle (3 October), Portland (5 October), San Francisco (7 October) and a hometown Forum date in Inglewood (9 October). A festival stop at Dia de los Deftones, Petco Park, San Diego, lands on 7 November, and a larger East and Midwest arena swing – including Atlanta (10 November), Chicago (18 November), Detroit (19 November) and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center (21–22 November) – rounds out the year. Venue pages list Nessa Barrett and Noise Dept. as special guests on portions of the U.S. run.
How the set works: three acts, one narrative
The show the band toured through spring and summer runs as a three‑act piece with pre‑recorded interludes. Setlist.fm’s logged O2 Arena set on 15 May 2026 shows Act I opening with Hula Girl and OMG and folding older cuts – Cry Baby, Prey, Reflections, Void, R.I.P. 2 My Youth – alongside the live return of A Little Death. A tape interlude seeds Act II, which has included Baby Came Home 2, The Beach and a Chip Chrome vignette before working towards Daddy Issues and Private. Act III carries Lovebomb into a closing stretch anchored by Sweater Weather and Softcore; at The O2, Stargazing appeared as a tour debut. The same page records timings: doors around 18:30, headliners on at 21:00 and off by 22:45, a roughly 100‑minute headline run.
Reviews broadly line up with those timings and that shape. In Melbourne on 11 July, the AU review praised the ‘ballad’ middle as a smart pacing move and picked out the late‑show one‑two of Sweater Weather and Softcore as the point where the room lifted. In Boston, The Harvard Crimson highlighted the way the lighting plot tracked the material – greens and fog for the broodier early pieces, lasers and pastel tones as the show accelerated – and noticed the crowd layout mirroring the band’s long‑held monochrome look.
Reception, frictions and what 2026 tells us about them
The comeback has been commercially strong in the rooms they chose: major arenas on both coasts of the United States, Paris, London, Berlin, Melbourne and more. Promoters in Detroit and London have stated that extra dates were added after initial onsales moved quickly. Critically, the notices have been positive on the performance itself. What remains unsettled is the personnel context: Fried’s reinstatement is documented in 2025–26 press and photo captions and has been debated in fan spaces, while the band and its partners have foregrounded musical statements and kept to the schedule.
Setlists have also been a live‑wire topic in the fan discourse, particularly around whether earlier songs such as Flawless or Wires appear every night; the European late‑summer leg has seen minor swaps. But in the main, the show has settled into an arc that reads like a career précis: the tight alt‑pop of the 2010s sat next to the steelier textures of the new record, paced and presented for the kind of rooms that once would have dwarfed this band. In 2026, The Neighbourhood look and sound like they have built themselves to fill them.
The show, now
In 2026 the headline run averages about 1 hour 35–45 minutes and is staged as three ‘acts’ bridged by short tape interludes. Arena timings logged in London on 15 May had doors c.18:30, The Neighbourhood on at 21:00 and off by 22:45. The opening sequence usually pairs Hula Girl and OMG from (((((ultraSOUND))))) before a sweep through earlier singles (Cry Baby, R.I.P. 2 My Youth, Afraid). A mid‑show ‘ballad section’ – flagged on the main screens – clusters slower material (Baby Came Home 2, The Beach, Private) before the finale escalates through Lovebomb, Sweater Weather and Softcore. Production is purposefully spare by arena standards – fog, monochrome washes, occasional lasers and a live camera feed on a large central screen – allowing the band and Rutherford’s pacing to carry dynamics. Support acts vary by leg: Noise Dept. appears widely; Nessa Barrett is billed on much of the North American autumn run; Neggy Gemmy opened in Boston on 8 April; Night Tapes appeared in London on 15 May. Recent reviews in Boston and Melbourne praised the structure and crowd control, and a promoter listing for Brooklyn confirms Barrett and Noise Dept. for 21 November, with Barrett not appearing on 22 November.
Researched from news.livenationentertainment.com · news.pollstar.com · allmusic.com · allmusic.com · music.apple.com · jambase.com · thecrimson.com · theaureview.com
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