EXPO by Ulrika Spacek
Tracklist
| 1. | Intro | |
| 2. | Picto | 5:10 |
| 3. | I Could Just Do It | |
| 4. | Build a Box Then Break It | 5:29 |
| 5. | This Time I'm Present | |
| 6. | Showroom Poetry | |
| 7. | Expo | |
| 8. | Square Root of None | 4:35 |
| 9. | Weights & Measures | |
| 10. | A Modern Low | |
| 11. | Incomplete Symphony | |
Videos
Credits
releases February 6, 2026
2026 Ulrika Spacek under exclusive license to Full Time Hobby Music LTD
EXPO is a symbol of collective art, and a dialectic between analogue and electronic.
Though their well-established foundations are in the psych-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. “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 sample bank,” explains singer/guitarist Rhys. 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 layered upon real drums, and the effect is almost like birth in reverse - pulled from the ether and returned back to the tangible world.
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 bassist/producers Syd Kemp runs which connects the dots between the jazz scene and like-minded experimental artists; or their creative bleed as musicians and producers over the years with the likes of Crack Cloud, caroline, DIIV, Holy Wave and the band’s existence is inseparable from its community. On the melodic, cold-sweat fever of “Picto”, Rhys states EXPO manifesto: “It’s back to strength in numbers, count in fives.”
“There’s a lot that can be said about writing when there is no aim, there is a freedom and a purity in it which opens a door to more music, and in this case, it set a mood for a new album, one that would be colder, darker and one that would embrace electronics and new instrumentation in a new terrain” the band share. “The album’s greater theme is isolation and alienation in an online world where it seems everybody around you is constantly exhibiting themselves, living in public wanting to be seen and heard. 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.”
Recorded at Total Refreshment Centre (London) and Stugion (Stockholm)
Engineered, Mixed and Produced by Ulrika Spacek
Mastered by Jason Mitchell
Rhys Edwards - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Sampler, Electronics
Joseph Stone - Keyboards, Piano, Guitar, Sampler, Saxophone, Electronics
Callum Brown - Drums, Percussion, Electronics
Syd Kemp - Bass, Electronics
Rhys Jenkins - Guitar
2026 Ulrika Spacek under exclusive license to Full Time Hobby Music LTD
EXPO is a symbol of collective art, and a dialectic between analogue and electronic.
Though their well-established foundations are in the psych-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. “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 sample bank,” explains singer/guitarist Rhys. 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 layered upon real drums, and the effect is almost like birth in reverse - pulled from the ether and returned back to the tangible world.
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 bassist/producers Syd Kemp runs which connects the dots between the jazz scene and like-minded experimental artists; or their creative bleed as musicians and producers over the years with the likes of Crack Cloud, caroline, DIIV, Holy Wave and the band’s existence is inseparable from its community. On the melodic, cold-sweat fever of “Picto”, Rhys states EXPO manifesto: “It’s back to strength in numbers, count in fives.”
“There’s a lot that can be said about writing when there is no aim, there is a freedom and a purity in it which opens a door to more music, and in this case, it set a mood for a new album, one that would be colder, darker and one that would embrace electronics and new instrumentation in a new terrain” the band share. “The album’s greater theme is isolation and alienation in an online world where it seems everybody around you is constantly exhibiting themselves, living in public wanting to be seen and heard. 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.”
Recorded at Total Refreshment Centre (London) and Stugion (Stockholm)
Engineered, Mixed and Produced by Ulrika Spacek
Mastered by Jason Mitchell
Rhys Edwards - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Sampler, Electronics
Joseph Stone - Keyboards, Piano, Guitar, Sampler, Saxophone, Electronics
Callum Brown - Drums, Percussion, Electronics
Syd Kemp - Bass, Electronics
Rhys Jenkins - Guitar
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