The Neighbourhood ended a four-year silence in 2025: a reunion made public in late August, a new deal with Warner Records, three singles on October 23, the Private EP, and a fifth studio album, (((((ultraSOUND))))), on November 14. The comeback rolls into 2026 as the Wourld Tour, 30-plus dates on five continents with Nessa Barrett supporting the Europe/UK leg and select US shows.
How long were they actually gone?
Longer than the public knew. The indefinite hiatus was announced via Instagram Story on February 22, 2022, but the band's own retrospective statement dates the stop to November 2021, “after 10 years together.” Their explanation was unusually plain for a band statement: “As we entered our early 30s, we were faced with life outside of the band for the first time in our adult lives. Breakups, family struggles, and personal challenges.” The final pre-hiatus shows were two October 2021 nights at the Hollywood Bowl and Forest Hills Stadium.
The reunion assembled just as quietly. According to the band's own account, they were back in the studio together by November 2024, drummer Brandon Fried included, a full nine months before anyone outside the room knew. The public confirmation finally came in late August 2025 via an Instagram Story that was briefly posted, then deleted: a fittingly low-key announcement from a band that once refused color television.
Why does the Warner deal matter?
Because it is the band's first new label home in over a decade. Columbia Records released everything from the 2012 EPs through 2020's Chip Chrome & the Mono-Tones, and its catalog arm Legacy Recordings kept working the old records through the hiatus, including the 2023 I Love You. anniversary reissue and the Diamond certification of “Sweater Weather.” The comeback, though, runs through Warner Records, with management by Bad Habit and worldwide booking (except Africa) by Wasserman Music. The label move came with a notable roster symmetry: Nessa Barrett, the dark-pop singer who names The Neighbourhood among her core influences, records for Warner too.
What is (((((ultraSOUND)))))?
The five-parentheses album, released November 14, 2025, is the band's first LP in five years, preceded on October 23 by the singles “OMG,” “Lovebomb” and “Private” and the Private EP. “Private” reached No. 28 in the US, and the album debuted at No. 155 on the Billboard 200 while also charting in Australia and Belgium. Reviewers framed it as “a quiet, moody comeback,” bridging '90s alt-rock grit with a contemporary, dreamy sheen, and built partly on phone-recorded, GarageBand-loop production choices that echo Jesse Rutherford's solo experiments, most directly 2019's GARAGEB&, made largely on the GarageBand phone app.
A band that spent a decade at stadium scale came back on purpose at whisper volume.
The modest chart debut is worth reading carefully rather than dismissively. The Neighbourhood's commercial engine has never been album-week numbers: it is a catalog doing roughly 45 million Spotify monthly listeners and 19.4 billion total streams, with “Sweater Weather” recurringly viral on TikTok as recently as 2026. The album is the occasion; the tour is the business.
How big is the Wourld Tour?
The 2026 routing is the loudest part of the comeback: North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Latin America, with marquee stops at Madison Square Garden, London's The O2 and Boston's TD Garden, ending at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, a finale initially set for October 9 and later expanded with additional LA dates through early December. Nessa Barrett opens the Europe/UK leg and select US dates, timed to her EP Jesus Loves a Primadonna: a booking that pairs dark pop's godfathers with one of the artists they directly shaped, on the same label, on the same stage.
That circularity is the real story of the comeback. The band that went quiet in 2021 returned to find the scene it seeded fully grown: TikTok still resurrecting its catalog, a support act raised on its records, and an audience that never actually left. The Ring has covered how catalog-first, platform-native strategies now define the scene's rising acts; The Neighbourhood's 2025-26 run is what it looks like when the original template comes back to collect.