About Spacey Jane:

‘All The Noise’ — the first single from Spacey Jane’s third album, If That Makes Sense — sets the stage for the quartet’s most accomplished and ambitious collection to date. Written in one session and jammed out in soundcheck, ‘All The Noise’ is immediate and epic. It sees frontman, Caleb Harper, piecing together the story of his parents’ union and collapse as he is backed by a central riff that tumbles in propulsive triplets, hooks like a chorus, and rushes towards moments of space and respite.

Communication, in whatever form that takes, is a leap of faith, and on If That Makes Sense, Caleb’s trademark mode of lyrical honesty is honed to its finest point, his vulnerability revealing profound strength. It is an album that parses the big stuff: heartbreak and longing; how the past can prefigure the future; the gulf between what’s been said and what’s been done; rewriting the script. It’s the sound of a band breaking new ground. But the beauty of art is that it serves a purpose for those who make it, while offering itself up for interpretation entirely divorced from its creators. What the listener takes from Spacey Jane is for the listener alone to divine.

Formed in Perth, Western Australia, in 2016 while Caleb, drummer Kieran Lama, and guitarist Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu were still at university — with bassist/backing vocalist Peppa Lane joining in 2020 — Spacey Jane built a dedicated following the old school way, by tirelessly gigging. After releasing a couple of frenetic, scuzzy indie-rock EPs, the band’s debut full-length, Sunlight, dropped in June 2020, connecting instantly, and topping Triple J’s annual album poll with breakout single ‘Booster Seat’ scooping ARIA Song of the Year.

The swift success buoyed the quartet’s confidence. Caleb recalls when the band began writing their 2022 follow-up, Here Comes Everybody, “we sort of had our tails up, roostering a little bit, like ‘We can fucking do this!’” — and their conviction saw them through. Their sophomore album debuted at number one on the ARIA charts, and in 2022 they were Triple J’s most played artist. Overall worldwide streams currently clock in at 518 million, not to mention sold out tours cementing their formidable live reputation (in 2023 they shifted 28k tickets from headlining shows alone).

In just a few short years, Spacey Jane established themselves as one of Australia’s hottest homegrown talents, so it stands to reason that the band are broadening their horizons. Determined to push out of their creative comfort zone, If That Makes Sense began with Caleb coming to Los Angeles and challenging himself with the rigorous songwriting speed dating that’s become part of the LA’s music scene, an experience he describes as “fucking terrifying.”