urika’s bedroom – “Circle Games”

urika’s bedroom – “Circle Games”

The LA-based musician known as urika’s bedroom makes idiosyncratic, evocative, home-recorded indie rock. Earlier this year, urika’s bedroom toured with Nourished By Time, and we posted their single “XTC.” That song will appear on urika’s bedroom’s full-length debut album Big Smile, Black Mire, which is set to arrive later this year. So will “Circle Games,” the new urika’s bedroom single.

“Circle Games” is a bleary, dreamy track that layers echoing, heavily filtered vocals and prettily distorted guitars over a deep head-nod drum-machine groove. It sounds like futuristic trip-hop, and it’s got a music video from director Rich Smith. Below, check out that video, the Big Smile, Black Mire tracklist, and urika’s bedroom’s upcoming tour dates.

TRACKLIST:
01 “✱66”
02 “XTC”
03 “bsbm”
04 “Video Music”
05 “Junkie”
06 “Exit”
07 “Post-War Everything”
08 “Circle Games”
09 “Metalhead”
10 “If I Cut The Wings Off A Fly”
11 “Darcy’s Rave Hour”
12 “Century Love”

TOUR DATES:
10/11 – Phoenix, AZ @ Palabra
10/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Cid #
10/26 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ London Calling Festival
10/28 – Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow Skybar #
10/29 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Ideal Bar #
10/30 – Berlin, Germany @ Badehaus #
10/31 – Munich, Germany @ Giesinger Bahnhof #
11/03 – Brussels, Belgium @ 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, Ireland @ Bello Bar #

# with Chanel Beads

Big Smile, Black Mire is out 11/1 on True Panther Records.

Khari Cousins

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