The comeback is officially bigger than the hiatus. The Neighbourhood released the deluxe edition of (((((ultraSOUND)))))+ in May and expanded The Wourld Tour with more than 20 additional 2026 dates on overwhelming demand, a run that opened March 28 in Austin and now stretches through Madison Square Garden, London's O2, Australia and Asia before a hometown finale at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on October 9.
Four years away, none of it lost
(((((ultraSOUND))))) was the band's first album since 2020's Chip Chrome era and the end of a four-year hiatus, arriving on Warner with singles Private, OMG and Lovebomb. The tour selling past its original routing answers the only question that mattered: whether the audience that streamed Sweater Weather into Diamond certification during the TikTok years would actually show up. They did, in arena numbers.
The farm system rides along
The expanded routing also carries the next generation with it. The September European leg brings Nessa Barrett aboard as support alongside AFTER, NIGHT TAPES and NOISE DEPT., which means the band that effectively invented the dark-pop template spends the fall handing its stage to the artist who studied it most closely. Jesse Rutherford has always been the scene's reluctant godfather; this bill makes it official.
The question was whether the TikTok-era audience would show up. The answer added 20 dates.
The numbers behind the demand
The routing is aggressive because the catalog earned it during the years the band was gone. Sweater Weather spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at number one on Alternative Airplay, carries an RIAA Diamond certification and has passed 4.7 billion Spotify streams inside a catalog total near 19.4 billion, with roughly 45 million monthly listeners still arriving through the TikTok second life the song found while the band was on hiatus. Most comebacks have to rebuild an audience. This one returned to find the audience had multiplied on its own.
What to watch
A deluxe album mid-tour usually signals a band feeding a hungry room, and the Kia Forum close, a hometown arena for a group formed 40 minutes up the road in Newbury Park, is the kind of full-circle booking bands only get once. The Wourld Tour started as a comeback. It is ending as a coronation.