Ultra Lights bring Atlanta guitar bite to Pleasure’s All Yours

Ultra Lights’ debut album Pleasure’s All Yours is due 10 July via Chunklet, and their new single Bad Feeling remains a strong current indie-rock discovery item for 26 May. The Atlanta band first turned heads with last year’s self-titled EP, and this full-length announcement suggests they are ready to move from local buzz to a wider guitar-band conversation.

Stereogum points to influences including The Strokes, Archers of Loaf, Wipers and Pavement, which is enough to make any indie-rock obsessive start nervously adjusting their record-store tote bag. But Bad Feeling works because it is not just an influence checklist. It has sharp guitars, dry wit, sneaky melody and the kind of vocal delivery that sounds indifferent until the hook reveals how much feeling is actually hiding underneath.

The album tracklist includes Good Enough, Bad Feeling, Wild On The Outside, Nostalgia, Diamond Dreams, What’s Wrong and Got Damage, all titles that suggest a band comfortable with frustration, humor and slightly damaged optimism. For a 26 May digest, Ultra Lights are worth highlighting because they remind us that guitar music does not need to be reinvented every week to matter. Sometimes it just needs a band with a pulse, a bad feeling and the good sense to turn both into a song. Source: https://stereogum.com/2499751/ultra-lights-announce-debut-album-pleasures-all-yours-hear-bad-feeling/music