After cutting hundreds of demos, Hagen culled the material down to the TK songs that make up Surgery And Pleasure. These explore a complex cycle of grief and all the ways it manifests in unexpected forms — physicality and escapism in “Beta Fish,” sarcastic self-pity in “Let Me Bleed,” a moment of mercy and empathy in the sprawling six-minute epic “I Need You.”
If there’s any making sense of these things, Surgery And Pleasure chooses to view loss not as subtraction in life, but some kind of twisted addition to how we see the world around us. Musically, too, Vundabar have reemerged, the same but different than we’ve ever heard them. Carrying more scars, but more perspective for them.

Side A:

1. Life Is A Movie - 3:19
2. Beta Fish - 3:39
3. Stallion Running - 2:21
4. I Got Cracked - 3:39
5. Spades - 5:54

1. Let Me Bleed - 2:59
2. Feels Like Forever - 2:49
3. Hurricane - 3:07
4. I Need You - 6:21
5. Easy Does It - 3:27
6. Why Is It So Hard To Say Goodbye? - 2:14