SPACEFACE – COWBOY LIGHTNING
(For fans of: Dr. Dog, Jagwar Ma, Tame Impala, Holy Wave, The Flaming Lips)
CMJ add date: 11/29/16
NACC add date: 11/29/16
TRACK LIST
1. Cowboy Lightning
(Sun Kids full-length album coming in January 2017!)
FCC Warning: NONE (Song is FCC compliant)
Label: Self-Released
Bio:
Spaceface is a psychedelic rock band from Memphis, TN. Formed in 2011 by vocalist/guitarist Jake Ingalls, bass player Matt Strong and guitarist/vocalist Eric Martin, the 3 principal members have known each other since early childhood and began to share their songs with one another while living together during college. Just one year later the group began recording and performing live. From the beginning Spaceface has endeavored to craft music that is as catchy as it is transportive. Taking a cue from bands like White Denim, Tame Impala and Dr. Dog, the band takes classic pop song structures and stretches them out to insert their own brand of acid washed psychedelia within.
After a few short tours opening for Stardeath and White Dwarfs, the trio realized they needed to add a few players to expand their sonic reach. They then added drummer Victor Quinn Hill to the line up, whose bombast and machinist-tight rhythm mixed with Strong’s bass in a way that is guaranteed to make you move. The songs were then expanded by textural key arrangements provided by Ingalls, then performed and embellished upon by Daniel Quinlan and Peter Armstrong. Frontman Jake Ingalls also plays in the seminal psychedelic band The Flaming Lips, serving first as a roadie and then a touring member of the group playing guitar, keyboards and lending his vocals live. The influence shows on their debut album “Sun Kids”. Ingalls says the album is meant to sound like a band lost in time. You know, the one you find in the used bin of your local record store from 1974 that just missed you for some reason or another. The songs were written for a full band arrangement between both Flaming Lips and Spaceface tours, then vigorously road tested before being recorded all together in one week late nights in December of 2015 at Jody Stephens of Big Star’s Ardent Studios in Memphis,TN. Ingalls then took the songs to Norman, Oklahoma where they were co-produced and mixed by Jarod Evans who first agreed to work with Spaceface on their 2012 self titled EP after a week of live recording in Wayne Coyne’s Pink Floor Studios. Evan’s sticky rich analog production oozes ear candy for both the casual listener and the watchful audiophile.
