Mouth Ulcers’ newly launched video for Space treats performance as a kind of psychic exposure, placing the London quartet inside a hall of doubled bodies, spectral color, and restless motion. Directed by the band and shot and edited by vocalist-guitarist Zak Watson, the clip builds its charge through superimposition: faces slide over instruments, silhouettes cross into one another, and the group appears caught between rehearsal-room immediacy and some less stable interior zone.
The song, the latest preview of their debut EP Silent Pictures, out July 10 via LAB Records, moves with cold-blooded elegance. Jamie-Lee Culver’s bassline carries the melody with severe grace, while David Zbirka’s drums keep the track alert and unsentimental. Around them, Watson and Josephine Rose send out clean, needling guitar figures that cut between post-punk austerity and shoegaze blur. Complementing Zak’s hushed delivery, Rose gives the track its sharpest chill, calling to mind PJ Harvey and Jae Matthews of Boy Harsher: low-lit, unhurried, and faintly dangerous, her voice stretches across the song with the poise of someone letting each word cool before it lands.
The references are plain enough: Joy Division’s emotional severity, The Cure’s romantic chill, Bauhaus’s angular attack – but Space is most persuasive when Mouth Ulcers bends those inheritances toward their own strange temperature. Their goth revivalism has elegance without stiffness, drama without excess. And it looks good when set in motion.
For a band formed only in 2025, Mouth Ulcers already seem unusually sure of their visual grammar. The DIY video’s psychedelic layering never feels ornamental; it gives shape to the song’s fixation on memory as pressure, presence, and loss. Bodies repeat because the past repeats. Images overlap because old selves rarely depart in single file. The result is a performance video with the private logic of a dream, though its pleasures remain concrete: ringing guitars, a cavernous baritone, a rhythm section with poise, and a camera that knows when to let distortion do the talking.
Regarding the song’s underlying themes, Mouth Ulcers explains: “Space explores how nostalgia can feel like both a physical presence and a permanent loss. Something that’s a common theme across the whole EP, seeing how the past is a part of you, but you have to leave it behind to survive.”
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If their latest track is any indication, Mouth Ulcers are a band rapidly gaining momentum and moving with intention. Space is out now—listen below and pre-order the Silent Pictures EP here.
Mouth Ulcer’s upcoming tour, stretching from July into January, will take the band through Leeds, London, Liverpool, Eindhoven, Manchester, Venlo, Amsterdam, Porto, and Bognor Regis, including festival dates and a London appearance with The Mission.
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