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We had the pleasure of interviewing Ultra Q over Zoom video!\xa0
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Oakland-based four-piece band Ultra Q have released their new EP Get Yourself A Friend today (via Royal Mountain Records). Fronted by Jakob Armstrong and featuring brothers Enzo and Chris Malaspina as well as Kevin Judd, the new EP was co-produced by Armstrong and Martin Cooke (Of Monsters And Men, Death Cab For Cutie, Destroy Boys) and features songwriting from Stefan Babcock, lead singer of PUP.
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Click HERE to watch the video for \u201cGet Yourself A Friend\u201d
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Ultra Q have also released the official music video for the title track today which was shot by Pennacky, the Japanese director behind all of the music videos for 88Rising's soundtrack for Marvel\u2019s Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings. Upon meeting Armstrong and Pennacky immediately connected on their love of The Cure and a deep-cut video that inspired Pennacky to attach the camera to a rope for the new visual. Pennacky is also an avid fan of the Ultraman Sci-Fi series and drew from the original plot to shape the story of the video.
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Opening double-shot \u201cPupkin\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Permanent\u201d soar to the heights of Ultra Q\u2019s powers in much different ways; the former a black-clad romp through a rainy graveyard, the former pushing straight to the clouds with its soaring chorus. \u201cStraight Jacket\u201d veers pleasantly close to the jangle-pop of the Go-Betweens. \u201cBowman\u201d features guitars like cats getting into a scratch-fight while an astoundingly metronomic drumbeat is played live rather than punched out on a beat pad. Closing the EP is its title track, an affecting end credits anthem full of nostalgia and a twinge of regret. On the song, which Babcock helped to arrange, Armstrong shares, \u201cI think this track sums up what this EP is supposed to be, a coming-of-age farewell to our youth. It\u2019s about being young and in love. Being reckless, and overstimulated. Feeling like the tragedies in your life are permanent and without any direction. We\u2019ve grown up, even if it\u2019s ever so slight.\u201d
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As a whole, Get Yourself A Friend marks the synthesis of a songwriter\u2019s vision and his band\u2019s ability, forged through an invisible existential threat and an ever-changing world, eager to show what they\u2019ve found while we were all inside.
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Ultra Q\u2019s previous EPs, In a Cave in a Video Game and We\u2019re Starting To Get Along, saw the band gain praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, NME, and Vice, in addition to leading to tours with The Regrettes, Hockey Dad, and Bad Suns. Jakob Armstrong\u2014youngest son of Green Day frontman Billie Joe\u2014began playing guitar at seven years old and honed his craft privately until about sixteen, playing in bands in and around Oakland after meeting friends with like-minded tastes in music. Soon enough, with the memories of Ultraman action figures fighting in his mind, he and a group of friends he cultivated from those years playing around and pouring over records, formed Ultra Q. The band will play Atlanta\u2019s Shaky Knees Festival in Spring 2022.
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