urika’s bedroom by Khari Cousins
SHARES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “CIRCLE GAMES” OUT NOW
EMBARKING ON TOUR WITH CHANEL BEADS THIS FALL
Big Smile, Black Mire
PRE-SAVE/ORDER: https://found.ee/ub-bsbm
Today, Los Angeles-based artist urika’s bedroom announces debut album Big Smile, Black Mire due November 1st via True Panther (Oklou, Model/Actriz, Christopher Owens). The announcement is paired with a first glimpse into the upcoming project with new single “Circle Games,” a spellbinding mix coated in ub’s signature digital gauze. urika’s latest offering utilizes silvery guitar tabs and textured production to create an ominous, rattling meditation on societal decay–which ub describes as “post-war everything.” The single comes alongside a video directed by Rich Smith of Powered by Wind (Body Meat, The Dare, Slow Pulp) featuring a hazy mix of spinning car imagery and shadowy figures.
urika’s bedroom is also announcing a string of EU and UK dates supporting New York City’s Chanel Beads on their upcoming tour. The tour begins in ub’s hometown of LA on October 12th and then heads across the pond to London, Berlin, Munich and more. Full tour routing below.
Self-produced and engineered by urika’s bedroom with additional mixing from Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House, DIIV), Big Smile, Black Mire is built upon the modern art of guitar processing and recontextualization. urika’s bedroom sculpts an expansive universe of timbres and tones, ranging from trashy and lived-in skronks to liquid beams of melody. ub renders a lucid depiction of longing, alienation, and multivalent emotional experiences powered by an avant-garde creative direction. The album is a marvel of scene-setting, a showcase for ub’s intuitive understanding of what makes for an evocative and devastating arrangement.
urika’s bedroom began playing in various genre-fluid bands in Los Angeles, leading to fruitful creative relationships and producing for like-minded artists such as untitled (halo) and Ded Hyatt. In fall 2023, ub invited audiences into an intimate artistic space with debut single “Junkie” and follow-up track “XTC,” while heading on tour with Youth Lagoon then Nourished By Time.
Pre-save/order Big Smile, Black Mire and listen to “Circle Games” above, find urika’s fall touring details below, and stay tuned for more from the Los Angeles-based artist coming soon.
Upcoming Live Dates
# = supporting Chanel Beads
10/11 – Phoenix, AZ @ Palabra
10/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Cid # (Sold Out)
10/26 – Amsterdam, NL @ London Calling Festival
10/28 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow Skybar #
10/29 – Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar #
10/30 – Berlin, DE @ Badehaus #
10/31 – Munich, DE @ Giesinger Bahnhof #
11/3 – Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Weekender
11/11 – Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana #
11/13 – London, UK @ The Great Escape First Fifty (Paper Dress Vintage)
11/14 – Manchester, UK @ YES #
11/15 – Leeds, UK @ Headrow House #
11/17 – Dublin, IE @ Bello Bar #
Tickets: https://www.urikasbedroom.net
urika’s bedroom
Big Smile, Black Mire
True Panther Records
November 1, 2024
1. ✱66
2. XTC
3. bsbm
4. Video Music
5. Junkie
6. Exit
7. Post-War Everything
8. Circle Games
9. Metalhead
10. If I Cut The Wings Off A Fly
11. Darcy’s Rave Hour
12. Century Love
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