EXPO is the fourth album from cult alternative psych band Ulrika Spacek

EXPO marks the long-awaited return of Ulrika Spacek, the London-based art-rock collective celebrated for their hypnotic interplay of post-punk angularity, shoegaze atmosphere, and avant-pop intelligence. Known for their uncompromising approach and deep textural sensibility, the band emerged from the capital's DIY scene with a sound that fuses the cerebral minimalism of Television, the tonal density of Kid A-era Radiohead, and the percussive dissonance of Moin or Crack Cloud. On EXPO, Ulrika Spacek distill years of creative hiatus, personal dislocation, and sonic experimentation into their most assured and conceptually unified statement to date.

Written and recorded in self-imposed isolation, EXPO is the sound of five minds converging in a digital fog--an album that embraces electronics and textural abstraction without surrendering its emotional core. "There's a lot that can be said about writing when there is no aim," the band explains. "There is a freedom and a purity in it which opens a door to more music. It set a mood for an album that is colder, darker, and one that would embrace electronics and new instrumentation in a new terrain. The greater theme is isolation and alienation in an online world where everybody seems to be exhibiting themselves. The age of 'individuality' is lonely--it's a room of concave mirrors--and with this in mind, we set upon making our most collective effort; it's back to strength in numbers, count in fives."

Tracks like "Build a Box Then Break It" and "A Modern Low" navigate between fragmentation and control, mirroring the dissonance of modern connection. Elsewhere, "Picto" and "Weights & Measures" reveal the band's evolving rhythmic intelligence--tight, urgent, and explosively dynamic. EXPO feels at once expansive and claustrophobic, mechanical yet deeply human: a meditation on identity and alienation in the algorithmic age, filtered through Ulrika Spacek's meticulous sonic lens.

The album has been met with extraordinary international acclaim, with critics hailing it as the band's defining moment. Bandcamp selected it as Album of the Day, noting, "They've never sounded more self-assured than on EXPO... expertly balanced, expanding their sonic palette into a musical latticework of electronic and analog elements." Record Collector praised its "liminal collages... dislocated yet mesmeric, teetering between digital glitch-scapes and organic sounds." Uncut called it "urgent yet melodious... a flair of iridescent post-house with strings and a sudden eruption of fury." Le Monde remarked that "there's something of Radiohead about Ulrika Spacek--the tension between analog and electronic, the voice, the clarity of the guitars," while Les Inrocks described the record as "a long, dreamlike journey, best experienced with eyes half-closed, thoughts adrift."

Across Europe, Rock & Folk lauded the band's "singular mechanism of winding guitars and unpredictable melody," and Magic dubbed the group "a human algorithm composed of five of the brightest minds in the British indie scene." In Germany, Musikexpress wrote that EXPO "sounds as if Pavement were having coffee with Boards of Canada," while Kulturnews called it "a balancing act that Radiohead couldn't do better." The record has earned similar acclaim in the U.S., where BrooklynVegan declared it Album of the Week, writing, "What if Dummy, Kid A, and Homogenic were made today by one band on one record? It might sound something like this." NPR's All Songs Considered featured it on New Music Friday, with Flood and Tinnitist highlighting its "meta-reflection" and "deep originality."

The band has received strong support across radio outlets including BBC Radio 6 Music's Freakzone Takeover, France Inter, WDR1 Live, Radio X, 2SER, and Byte FM. Their tracks have been featured across major DSP playlists including Spotify's Hot New Bands, New Music Friday, Fresh Finds Rock, New Noise, and melomania, as well as Apple Music's New in Indie, Neu in Rock, and Matt Wilkinson's Playlist.

EXPO is not merely a comeback--it's a reinvention. The band's most expansive, precise, and emotionally resonant work to date, it transforms digital alienation into collective catharsis, cementing Ulrika Spacek's place among the most vital and forward-thinking voices in modern art rock.

Track Listing

• Intro
• Picto
• I Could Just Do It
• Build a Box Then Break It
• This Time I'm Present
• Showroom Poetry
• Expo
• Square Root of None
• Weights & Measures
• A Modern Low
• Incomplete Symphony

Additional Details

Label: Full Time Hobby

Genre: Pop/Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 45:27 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/06/26

UPC: 5060626469334