Ulrika Spacek detail new EP, field to the left

field to the left follows the band's fourth album EXPO, released back in February. "ulrika_adjacent_132.exe." lands as the first preview of the work, and is accompanied by a music video by LA-based Low Limit Vision, who has worked on videos with JPEGMAFIA, Actress and Dev Lemons.

"An example of starting an idea not necessarily having it be an Ulrika song in mind," the band say of the track. "There is such freedom in making music for the sake of itself rather than for something. The electronics and feel was there but it sounded too happy. The files in London got deconstructed and rebuilt in a much darker way and the song made big progress. In this era of the band we are having so much fun operating in the liminal space between electronic and a 'rock band', samplers really have been the mechanical tool that links both worlds allowing us to modulate and glitch up either side."

The band first started working on the EP while finishing EXPO. While making frequent trips in and out of the UK, they became more aware of the country's visual language, the way that the open green spaces can contrast with the grey concrete of city builds. While EXPO placed a focus on the isolation of maintaining an individualistic online existence, field to the left leans into isolation in suburban environments, and the spaces between the city and natural environments.

"After finishing EXPO, it felt like we had built a bit of a sonic world that we wanted to deepen," the band say. "On that record, there was perhaps a greater focus on sampling ourselves, but towards the end of that process we started really enjoying making things from scratch with guitars again. It was a period of listening to a lot of electronic music, while also sketching with guitars in nu-metal-like tunings."

field to the left artwork

field to the left tracklist

"light blue inverted"
"model behaviour"
"field to the left"
"shadowwork"
"ulrika_adjacent_132.exe."