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SUMMARY:Perfume Genius w/ urika’s bedroom
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, Hadreas released Set My Heart On Fire Immediately\, a critical masterpiece on Matador\nRecords that garnered worldwide acclaim. Produced by GRAMMY winner Blake Mills\, the album\nfeatured contributions from Phoebe Bridgers\, Jim Keltner\, Pino Palladino\, Matt Chamberlin\, Rob\nMoose\, and longtime collaborator Alan Wyffels. It explored and subverted concepts of\nmasculinity and traditional roles\, introducing distinctly American musical influences.Hadreas\npromoted the album with performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (“Jason”)\, The Late Show with\nStephen Colbert (“Whole Life”)\, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (“On The Floor”).\nHe followed with Ugly Season\, a project born from his collaboration with choreographer Kate\nWallich on The Sun Still Burns Here\, a dance piece commissioned by Seattle Theatre Group\nand Mass MoCA and performed across major cities in 2019. The release included a stunning\n30-minute film\, Pygmalion’s Ugly Season\, created with renowned visual artist Jacolby\nSatterwhite\, blending surreal visuals with Hadreas’s music.\nMike Hadreas is now based in Los Angeles with his partner in life and music\, Alan Wyffels. \n\n \n\nurika’s bedroom\nThe 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. \nBut 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. \nOn 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. \n“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.” \nBig Smile\, Black Mire is the culmination of several years of artistic growth and refinement for urika’s bedroom. After a warm reception to early singles “Junkie” and “XTC” — both of which appear on bsbm — the LA-based artist brought the project’s insular sound into the real world\, touring with the likes of Youth Lagoon\, Nourished By Time\, and Chanel Beads while also collaborating as a producer and co-writer with untitled (halo) and Ded Hyatt. Self-produced and engineered by urika’s bedroom with additional mixing by Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs\, Beach House\, DIIV)\, Big Smile\, Black Mire is built upon the modern art of guitar processing and recontextualization. By and large eschewing synthesizers\, urika’s bedroom — with contributions from ub touring guitarist Silas Johnson\, who otherwise records as Tracy — sculpts an expansive universe of timbres and tones\, ranging from trashy and lived-in skronks to tremulous and liquid beams of melody. \nFor instance\, “XTC” is a grime and glitter daydream\, while “Video Music” is a collision of glitchy percussion and surreal imagery\, scrambling to make sense of a romantic preoccupation: “how to keep you out my head / today\, don’t you think it’s all the same? / racing through this bloodswept cage / today\, it tastes like lithium and rain.” Meanwhile\, “Circle Games” is ominous and industrial\, a rattling meditation on societal decay and “post-war everything.” \nHowever\, any solipsistic dread is cut with a steadfast sense of hope — as on the swirling devotional “Metalhead” — and a resounding empathy for the struggles of others. The spoken interlude of “bsbm\,” one of several tracks featuring vocals from multidisciplinary artist Vivian Buenrostro\, works through word association to grasp for pure humanity amid the technological ennui. \n“Lately when I see somebody encountering challenges\, I still recognize the innocent child they once were\,” says urika. “On a social or individual level\, life is always about growth or collapse. But even in that collapse\, there’s a capability to find light and darkness.” \nBig Smile\, Black Mire is an adept and artful expression of that duality — as urika puts it\, “taking a selfie in front of a burning building.”
URL:https://www.mikebrowngroup.com/event/perfume-genius-w-urikas-bedroom/
LOCATION:Treefort Music Hall\, 722 W. Broad Street\, Boise\, ID\, 83702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Music,Music
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