Ulrika Spacek will bring its North American headline tour to Mercury Lounge on March 21, marking one of the band’s key U.S. dates in support of its forthcoming album, EXPO, due out Feb. 6 via Full Time Hobby.
The London-based collective recently shared its final advance single from the record, “Picto,” a jagged, fever-dream track that doubles as a manifesto for the group’s renewed commitment to making music as a true collective. “It felt great to be working as a collective again,” the band said in a statement, calling the song a celebration of collaboration over individual expression.
That spirit has long defined Ulrika Spacek, whose members balance music with careers ranging from experimental physics to graphic design. Their sound — marked by off-kilter melodies, jagged guitars and hazy atmospherics — reflects what the band describes as a shared “dream logic,” shaped as much by community as by genre.
On EXPO, that approach pushes further into new territory. The album blends art-rock foundations with electronic textures, embracing what the band calls the “glitch” between human warmth and digital isolation. Many of the songs were written while touring the United States, experiences that, along with frontman Rhys Edwards awaiting the birth of his daughter, influenced the record’s themes of uncertainty, responsibility and the future.
Rather than turning inward, Ulrika Spacek said EXPO holds a mirror up to the world, capturing a warped reflection of modern life. The band even built its own sound bank for the album, sampling and reworking its own performances to blur the line between organic and digital — a process they describe as creating “doppelgängers” of themselves in sound.
The Mercury Lounge show will give New York fans a chance to hear that evolution live, alongside recent singles including “Build a Box Then Break It” and “Square Root of None,” which have drawn attention from outlets such as Pitchfork, Stereogum and Brooklyn Vegan.
With EXPO, Ulrika Spacek continues to position community itself as an act of resistance. “We make decisions for the greater good,” the band said. “We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
Tour dates
March 20th – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
March 21st – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
March 22nd – Troy, NY @ No Fun
March 24th – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
March 25th – Toronto, ON @ The Cave
March 27th – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
March 28th – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
March 30th – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
March 31st – Salt Lake City, UT @ DLC
April 2nd – Seattle, WA @ Baba Yaga
April 3rd – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
April 4th – Portland, OR @ The Get Down
April 7th – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
April 8th – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
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