Ulrika Spacek Announce New Album & Share Lead Single "Build a Box Then Break It"

ULRIKA SPACEK ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM  & SHARES LEAD SINGLE  “BUILD A BOX THEN BREAK IT” EXPO OUT FEBRUARY 6TH VIA FULL TIME HOBBY

Ulrika Spacek by Anya Broido  Ulrika Spacek have announced their highly anticipated new album, EXPO, due out February 6th, 2026 via Full Time Hobby. Lead single “Build a Box Then Break It” serves as a sort of mission statement, expanding their art-rock sound into a liminal space between analogue and electronic, and capturing the album’s focus on our fractured experience of reality, reflected not through eyes but through screens ad infinitum. Attention, recognition, validation: we trade our interior worlds for the thrill of public display. In a hyper-individual world, Ulrika Spacek’s fourth album EXPO offers an antidote.  Ulrika Spacek has always been a symbol of collective art. Despite a range of day jobs (experimental physicists, graphic designers, music producers) the collective pursuit is there in the shared dream logic of the music: the off-kilter melodies, jagged guitars and cirrus cloud atmospherics. Whether it is Oysterland, the self-curated night the band began to platform artists of other disciplines in live music spaces; Total Refreshment Centre, the East London studio acclaimed producer [caroline, Thurston Moore, Spiritualized] / bassist Syd Kemp runs which connects the dots between the jazz scene and like-minded experimental artists; or their creative bleed as musicians and producers with Crack Cloud and the aforementioned artists, the band’s existence is inseparable from its community. WATCH “BUILD A BOX THEN BREAK IT”  OFFICIAL VISUALIZER

Rather than their previous works which looked within, EXPO holds a mirror up to the world and captures a warped reflection. The songs were written this way because they were touched by the strange lands and minds of America on tour; because Rhys was awaiting the birth of his daughter and started to wonder about what kind of future she could inherit. Though their foundations are in the art-rock world - and though they are inspired by electronic elements more than ever - Ulrika Spacek are interested in the glitch that exists between the two. Their music reckons with human warmth and digital isolation, equal parts welcoming and altogether alienating. In many ways, the band express the tension which defines modern life. “Our music has always been a collage – a bit patchwork, sonically – but what makes this album a landmark for us is that we went one step further and made our own sound bank and essentially sampled ourselves,” the band says. They create their own doppelgängers in a world of almost-real, where the band appear as if in a hall of mirrors. Digital drums are sampled and layered upon real drums, and the effect is almost like birth in reverse - pulled from the ether and returned back to the tangible world. EXPO serves as a triumph, governed by laws of its own. The organic wrestles with digital; ecstatic and danceable across musical languages. If art is to be exhibited, then Ulrika Spacek will ensure that it is art they make together; that even as the world becomes inhospitable to community, that their intentions are an act of resistance. “We make decisions for the greater good,” they state, “and we are greater than the sum of our parts.”

Tracklist: 01 Intro 02 Picto 03 I Could Just Do It 04 Build a Box Then Break It 05 This Time I'm Present 06 Showroom Poetry 07 Expo 08 Square Root of None 09 Weights & Measures 10 A Modern Low 11 Incomplete Symphony  Connect with Ulrika Spacek: Website | Instagram