Los Angeles artist, urika’s bedroom releases debut album Big Smile, Black Mire via True Panther. The LP was Self-produced and engineered by urika’s bedroom the album is built upon the modern art of guitar processing and recontextualization. The album comes alongside a new black-and-white visualizer of distorted images for track “Metalhead” created by Rich Smith. Big Smile, Black Mire includes previously released singles “Video Music,” “Circle Games,” “XTC” and debut single “Junkie.” ub shares about the album, “A lot of it is pulling from this point of emotional juxtaposition, the ability to feel multiple emotions at once, internally as well as externally.”

urika’s bedroom is currently on tour with Chanel Beads across Europe and will be playing Pitchfork festival in Paris and London next week. In January and February 2025, ub will kick off with dates in North America including Tomorrow Never Knows Festival in Chicago, followed by shows in New York and their hometown of Los Angeles. Previously, Urika’s Bedroom has toured with Youth Lagoon and 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 2024-2025 Tour Dates

11/03/24 – Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Weekender
11/07/24 – Nantes, FR @ Catapult Festival
11/08/24 – Paris, FR @ Pitchfork Paris
11/09/24 – London, UK @ Pitchfork London
11/11/24 – Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana
11/13/24 – London, UK @ The Great Escape First Fifty – Paper Dress Vintage
11/14/24 – Manchester, UK @ YES #
11/15/24 – Leeds, UK @ Headrow House #
11/17/24 – Dublin, IE @ Bello Bar #
01/15/25 – Chicago, IL @ Tomorrow Never Knows Festival
02/21/25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
02/28/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo

# = supporting Chanel Beads

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