CMJ.com Jan 2007... Ursula Points–Light Up A Galaxy:
Maybe the only Brooklyn outfit unafraid to play with hearts on sleeve and acoustics in lap, like they were something that hitchhiked from the Pacific Northwest 10 years ago and finally made their way to NYC. Think the first Red House Painters record (the official first, not the second self-titled one), but more succinct and with breathy female vocals adding extra warmth into the mix.


CMJ NEW MUSIC MONTHLY Oct. issue... URSULA POINTS 'Light Up a Galaxy' (Psychic Hits) "These Brooklyn neo-shoegazers (nügazers?) know every play in the MBV/Slowdive book (male-female vocals, blurry, bendy guitars), but they're not doing retread or tribute. That's partly because the dreamy duo lets their sound serve their songs rather than the other way around, but also because they get even better as they steer away from trad-shoegaze moves (see: the aching, Red House Painters-ish ..Oceans..). Both intimate and grand, Galaxy nearly lives up to its title's ambitious promise." -CMJ NEW MUSIC MONTHLY OCT. 2006



LONG ISLAND PRESS ... »Ursula Points“Oceans” [from the Psychic Hits release, Light Up a Galaxy; streaming at www.myspace.com/ursulapoints] Brooklyn duo Ursula Points’ extraordinary debut, Light Up a Galaxy, is the best shoegazer album of the year: a dreamy, somnambulistic outer-space journey with enough druggy ambiance and sonic beauty to score a good laser-light show, but with actual songs, too—to keep the designated drivers interested in what’s going on. “Oceans” may not be the album’s very best track, but it certainly feels like the standout: It’s a lover’s soaring, sad lamentation of a relationship broken up, and her cry for reconciliation—or, at least, reprieve from her ache. Singer Lindsay Marcus delivers her plea in bold, plaintive tones reminiscent of Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval or Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell: “Straight off the interstate/ We could find a place we felt we knew before, a place where less is more.”PRESSiPOD

Check out the current release from ex Ursula Points creator Kevin McGinnis:

The Drug Models Love - 'Slow Hope Parade'

twelve a.m. flowers - Curiously Immortal

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