URSULA

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Ursula don't muck around on this with heaving guitars and drums and brain filling melodies too.” – Declan Byrne, triplejunearthed.com

“Ursula have this dark and rich sound that combines heavy headbanging riffs with beautiful chorused guitar melodies together.” – Gerard Kinsella, toastytunes.com.au

Front-runners in Perth’s burgeoning shoegaze scene, four-piece Ursula today release their debut album, ‘Brains, Waste, Heart’. Spanning 10 tracks and featuring singles ‘A Stomach Full of Coal’, ‘Slip n Slide’ and ‘Hot n Bothered’, the band flirt with 90s Australian grunge, awash with reverb and wailing duelling vocals. Having hinted at heaviness over their last few singles, Ursula turns up the gain on title track and album opener ‘Brains, Waste, Heart’, giving listeners their first hint of the darker corners and angular compositions within the album.

Robbie Rumble, the band’s co-lead vocalist and guitarist, comments “We hooked up again with engineer Mitch McDonald, who recorded the first EP in my bedroom, but this time moved the process to Tunafish Studio in Fremantle. We tracked the album over a whirlwind 10 days with a little covid lockdown in the middle.”

“Lyrically, most songs have the repeating theme of anxiety manifesting in a variety of forms. I don’t think we really planned it out that way, it’s just how it turned out. Travel, heartbreak, health, lockdowns, socialising, germs... all kind of impacting my life over the last couple of years and has been the main focus of my song writing.”

Mental health is an oft-discussed topic throughout Brains, Waste, Heart, with previous singles Hot n Bothered and Slip n Slide each discussing agoraphobia and destructive personal relationships.

Ashby Ranson, co-lead, adds “The album has themes of mental health all throughout, which is an important topic for us. While writing I was working through finding myself, managing my anxiety and a little bit of heartbreak on the side. I’m excited that the album is a good representation of the evolution of our writing. It shows the direction we’re heading in as a group and we’re all excited to see where it leads!” 

“this one has sent me spinning at a rapid rate. it's gazey, reverb soaked and muscular and doesn't let up!” ★★★★ - Declan Byrne, triplejunearthed.com