session 007: urika's bedroom
Palabra Presents: urika's bedroom (VIVA PHX pre-show)
+AMBENT
Friday – OCTOBER 11TH, 2024
Doors: 8:30PM
Show: 9:00PM
21+
Palabra
909 N 1st St,
Phoenix, AZ
$20 + (w/ VIVA PHX link to $50 festival pass)
Ticket buyers for this show will receive a private link to acquire a VIVA PHX festival ticket at a discounted price of $50. This link will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of the performance and will remain active for 24 hours.
The bones and performance of a urika’s bedroom song are, approached from afar, certainly recognizable as rock music. Eagle-eyed genre-spotters might see it as slowcore, shoegaze, dreampop, emo-adjacent bedroom pop, mumblecore, or any other heavily hyphenated amalgamation of melodically-inclined indie or alternative rock.
But the true character of these songs reveals itself in their transmission. Coated in digital gauze, urika’s bedroom’s near-whispered exhortations are cast against spindling and silvery guitar lines, transmogrified vocal layers, fascinating artifacts of malfunctioning audio interfaces, and intrusive textural figures that hit like ambulance sirens bleeding into one’s private headphone symphony. The sound design is idiosyncratic and immaculate, a cryptic and modern rock idiom birthed from a diplomatic sonic union between Billy Corgan and Christian Fennesz.
On Big Smile, Black Mire — the full length debut due out November 1, 2024 on True Panther — urika’s bedroom presents this unique vision in full, rendering a shadowed yet lucid depiction of longing, alienation, and multivalent emotional experience with an assured command of avant-garde gesture. It’s a marvel of scene-setting, a showcase for urika’s bedroom’s instinctive understanding of what makes for an evocative and devastating arrangement.
“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 elaborates. “You’re never 100% sad or 100% happy. On this album, I’m subconsciously tapping into that conflict, of feeling one way and being another.”
*Tickets are non-refundablePalabra Presents: urika's bedroom (VIVA PHX pre-show)
+AMBENT
Friday – OCTOBER 11TH, 2024
Doors: 8:30PM
Show: 9:00PM
21+
Palabra
909 N 1st St,
Phoenix, AZ
$20 + (w/ VIVA PHX link to $50 festival pass)
Ticket buyers for this show will receive a private link to acquire a VIVA PHX festival ticket at a discounted price of $50. This link will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of the performance and will remain active for 24 hours.
The bones and performance of a urika’s bedroom song are, approached from afar, certainly recognizable as rock music. Eagle-eyed genre-spotters might see it as slowcore, shoegaze, dreampop, emo-adjacent bedroom pop, mumblecore, or any other heavily hyphenated amalgamation of melodically-inclined indie or alternative rock.
But the true character of these songs reveals itself in their transmission. Coated in digital gauze, urika’s bedroom’s near-whispered exhortations are cast against spindling and silvery guitar lines, transmogrified vocal layers, fascinating artifacts of malfunctioning audio interfaces, and intrusive textural figures that hit like ambulance sirens bleeding into one’s private headphone symphony. The sound design is idiosyncratic and immaculate, a cryptic and modern rock idiom birthed from a diplomatic sonic union between Billy Corgan and Christian Fennesz.
On Big Smile, Black Mire — the full length debut due out November 1, 2024 on True Panther — urika’s bedroom presents this unique vision in full, rendering a shadowed yet lucid depiction of longing, alienation, and multivalent emotional experience with an assured command of avant-garde gesture. It’s a marvel of scene-setting, a showcase for urika’s bedroom’s instinctive understanding of what makes for an evocative and devastating arrangement.
“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 elaborates. “You’re never 100% sad or 100% happy. On this album, I’m subconsciously tapping into that conflict, of feeling one way and being another.”
*Tickets are non-refundablePalabra Presents: urika's bedroom (VIVA PHX pre-show)
+AMBENT
Friday – OCTOBER 11TH, 2024
Doors: 8:30PM
Show: 9:00PM
21+
Palabra
909 N 1st St,
Phoenix, AZ
$20 + (w/ VIVA PHX link to $50 festival pass)
Ticket buyers for this show will receive a private link to acquire a VIVA PHX festival ticket at a discounted price of $50. This link will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of the performance and will remain active for 24 hours.
The bones and performance of a urika’s bedroom song are, approached from afar, certainly recognizable as rock music. Eagle-eyed genre-spotters might see it as slowcore, shoegaze, dreampop, emo-adjacent bedroom pop, mumblecore, or any other heavily hyphenated amalgamation of melodically-inclined indie or alternative rock.
But the true character of these songs reveals itself in their transmission. Coated in digital gauze, urika’s bedroom’s near-whispered exhortations are cast against spindling and silvery guitar lines, transmogrified vocal layers, fascinating artifacts of malfunctioning audio interfaces, and intrusive textural figures that hit like ambulance sirens bleeding into one’s private headphone symphony. The sound design is idiosyncratic and immaculate, a cryptic and modern rock idiom birthed from a diplomatic sonic union between Billy Corgan and Christian Fennesz.
On Big Smile, Black Mire — the full length debut due out November 1, 2024 on True Panther — urika’s bedroom presents this unique vision in full, rendering a shadowed yet lucid depiction of longing, alienation, and multivalent emotional experience with an assured command of avant-garde gesture. It’s a marvel of scene-setting, a showcase for urika’s bedroom’s instinctive understanding of what makes for an evocative and devastating arrangement.
“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 elaborates. “You’re never 100% sad or 100% happy. On this album, I’m subconsciously tapping into that conflict, of feeling one way and being another.”
*Tickets are non-refundable