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  new single “Circle Games.”  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. The artist 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.

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.

urika’s bedroom
Big Smile, Black Mire
True Panther Records

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

Urika’s Bedroom 2024 Tour Dates

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 #

# = supporting Chanel Beads

Pre-save/order Big Smile, Black Mire HERE