From punk to soul: Ecca Vandal’s fearless evolution continues with ‘MOLLY’

Sri Lankan, South African-born, Melbourne-based artist Ecca Vandal is a fearless sonic shapeshifter that fuses punk, hip-hop, soul, trip-hop and electronic influences into a sound that’s as explosive as it is unmistakably her own. Now, she shares her new single ‘MOLLY’.

Speaking about ‘MOLLY’, Ecca shares: “There’s the surface meaning, the chaos, the high, that kind of bliss that comes from forgetting things for a while, from turning the volume down on the world. But underneath all that, there’s something quieter going on. The feeling of being cut down, sometimes broken into pieces, and then slowly finding you way back, getting up again, rebuilding yourself bit by bit.” ‘MOLLY’ is a taste of a larger body of work to come and follows previous singles ‘CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE’, ‘BLEED BUT NEVER DIE’ and ‘THEN THERE’S ONE’. Spending her formative years as a jazz musician, her passion for improvisation led her to fall in love with the DIY abandon of punk and foster an ability to effortlessly balance soulful melodies with raw, unapologetic power.

Ecca Vandal will be performing at Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Festival and will be making her Coachella debut in April 2026. Next month, she’ll be heading out on a string of tour dates with Limp Bizkit across South America. Additionally, Ecca will be performing at Rock im Park Festival and Rock am Ring Festival in Germany next June ahead of performing at Outbreak Festival in Manchester on June 27, 2026.

South African-born with Tamil heritage and un upbringing in Melbourne, Australia, Ecca Vandal strutted her way onto the musical landscape in traditional punk-style with an edgy disposition and something to say. Ecca brings unrelenting energy to the stage with a history of touring alongside global heavyweights such as Queens of the Stone Age, Idles and The Prodigy. Refusing to be confined, Ecca shapeshifts between defiance and vulnerability, wielding her music as both statement and spectacle. She embodies rebellion with grace, a modern-day provocateur whose magnetism is undeniable.