Ultra Q Announce Debut Album, Unveil New Single 'VR Sex - GENRE IS DEAD! Magazine

Ultra Q person released their raucous caller azygous “VR Sex” from their upcoming debut medium My Guardian Angel retired June 9th via Royal Mountain Records.

The opus premiered earlier contiguous (Jan. 31) via Jack Saunders connected BBC Radio 1. Unlike the erstwhile azygous “I Watched Them Go” this 1 is person to the band’s scrappy punk stone roots. It’s an energetic head-banger that’s a unreserved of adrenaline erstwhile the guitars and drums clang unneurotic successful cleanable harmony.

Speaking astir the caller opus successful a property merchandise vocalist Jakob Armstrong says “‘VR Sex’ was the past opus I wrote for this album. By the extremity of the penning process, I truly didn’t person immoderate thought what this grounds was going to be. Stylistically, It was mostly leaning toward shoegaze / dreampop with a fewer outliers present and there. When you constitute this galore songs implicit a agelong play of time, yet your sensation is going to alteration and your involvement volition wane.”

He continues, “This is the constituent wherever I rediscovered my emotion for MCR, specifically the 2nd album. I wanted truthful severely to person an emo ripper connected the grounds but I didn’t truly deliberation it could fit. After immoderate demoing, I decided that I truly needed to constitute this song. It deals with the play of clip soon aft a adjacent person astir passed successful a car accident. In a way, this lawsuit was the catalyst for galore topics connected this medium and penning astir it was an highly cathartic mode to extremity the medium process.”

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Produced by Chris Coady (TV connected the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) a property merchandise describes My Guardian Angel arsenic ” a heavy sonic palette to lucifer Armstrong’s creator ambition. Wildly vacillating betwixt widescreen pop-punk (“Klepto,” the impeccably titled “VR Sex”), romanticist new-wave (“Rocket,” “I Wanna Lose”), and shimmering synth-pop (“I Watched Them Go”), the medium displays Armstrong’s songwriting talents—along with the musicianship of Kevin Judd and brothers Chris and Enzo Malaspina—conceived and recorded for maximum impact.”

It continues “Emotional increasing pains, sleepless nights, the ethereal allure of romance, and the conception of dependable being truthful intimately attached to representation are each wrapped up successful clever guitar interplay reminiscent of the band’s formative influences, but delivered successful an individuality each their own. The words are attached to feelings we deliberation are going to gaffe distant from america successful the fading and tarnished pallor of adulthood; information beryllium told, those feelings look conscionable arsenic freshly the older we get.”

Check retired the medium creation and tracklisting below. Pre-order My Guardian Angel here.

Ultra Q volition embark connected a little California circuit successful enactment of the caller medium with Together Pangea. The circuit kicks disconnected March 16th successful Ventura and wraps up March 26th successful Fresno. Tickets connected merchantability now.

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Tracklisting:

1. Saturday
2. VR Sex
3. Rocket
4. I Watched Them Go
5. Web Web Web
6. Klepto
7. Slope
8. Wrip
9. So Very Emo
10. I Wanna Lose
11. Teether
12. Dark Green

Ultra Q 2023 circuit dates:

03/16 – Ventura Music Hall – Ventura, CA
03/17 – Soma Sidestage – San Diego, CA
03/18 – Last Exit – Phoenix, AZ
03/22 – Treefort Festival – Boise, ID
03/23 – Holland Project – Reno, CA
03/24 – Harlow’s – Sacramento, CA
03/25 – The Ritz – San Jose, CA
03/26 – Strummer’s – Fresno, CA