Art Rock
Choral Folk
Post-Rock
Indie Folk
Chamber Rock
About Ugly (UK)
Ugly is an innovative British six-piece art-rock, choral-folk, and experimental chamber-rock band formed in Cambridge and based in London, England, consisting of Mike O'Malley, Samuel Goater, Harrison Jones, Jasmine Miller-Sauchella, Tom Harrison, and Theo Guttenplan. Emerging at the forefront of the modern UK alternative renaissance, Ugly has garnered widespread critical acclaim for merging 1960s folk harmonies and medieval choral music with explosive post-rock dynamics.
Their critically lauded 2023 breakthrough EP 'Twice Around the Sun' and subsequent releases produced celebrated tracks including 'The Wheel', 'Sha', 'Icy Windy Sky', 'Shepherd's Carol', and 'Hands of Man'. The band's sonic architecture pairs magnificent six-part polyphonic vocal counterpoints with intricate math-folk guitar arpeggios, driving percussion, and lush synthesizer soundscapes.
Ugly has toured extensively across the UK and Europe, performing at major festivals including Green Man, End of the Road, and Left of the Dial, earning praise from publications like NME, DIY, and The Quietus.
For guitarists and vocal arrangers, Ugly's songs offer an extraordinary study in open-tuned acoustic fingerpicking, irregular time signatures, and soaring dynamic choral chord progressions that are a thrill to learn.
Ugly is an innovative British six-piece art-rock, choral-folk, and experimental chamber-rock band formed in Cambridge and based in London, England, consisting of Mike O'Malley, Samuel Goater, Harrison Jones, Jasmine Miller-Sauchella, Tom Harrison, and Theo Guttenplan. Emerging at the forefront of the modern UK alternative renaissance, Ugly has garnered widespread critical acclaim for merging 1960s folk harmonies and medieval choral music with explosive post-rock dynamics.
Their critically lauded 2023 breakthrough EP 'Twice Around the Sun' and subsequent releases produced celebrated tracks including 'The Wheel', 'Sha', 'Icy Windy Sky', 'Shepherd's Carol', and 'Hands of Man'. The band's sonic architecture pairs magnificent six-part polyphonic vocal counterpoints with intricate math-folk guitar arpeggios, driving percussion, and lush synthesizer soundscapes.
Ugly has toured extensively across the UK and Europe, performing at major festivals including Green Man, End of the Road, and Left of the Dial, earning praise from publications like NME, DIY, and The Quietus.
For guitarists and vocal arrangers, Ugly's songs offer an extraordinary study in open-tuned acoustic fingerpicking, irregular time signatures, and soaring dynamic choral chord progressions that are a thrill to learn.
