Psych-pop rockers Spaceface have returned with their new single “Happens All The Time”, out now via Mothland. “Happens All The Time” is as funky and dreamy as pop curveballs can get, from its infectious introductory guitar riff to its dazed-out vocals, this psychedelic slice of pop-rock is just plain fun. The accompanying music video is as fun and colorful as the track itself, mimicking a 1970’s style performance. Directed by Emmy award-winning puppeteer Dave Bizzaro, the band is brought to life as puppets made out of toilet paper rolls, complete with miniature instruments. Spaceface is a band that is out to create a good time and that’s plenty apparent on their latest offering. You can watch the video for “Happens All The Time” here and find the song on streaming services here.
On the story behind the song, vocalist and guitarist Jake Ingalls (they/them) commented:
“The track is about that dreaded feeling of knowing you’ve seen or met someone before and not quite remembering their name but knowing it’s gonna come up and you just gotta deal with it because at the end of the day, it really does happen all the time. And it’s no biggie.”
On creating the video, director Dave Bizzaro stated:
“When Jake came to me about creating a music video it was three months after the pandemic hit NYC. All TV and film productions had halted and I was held up in my apartment making puppets out of leftover toilet paper rolls like a mad man. Jake called me up one day and asked if I could create a puppet-driven music video with sock puppets for his new album. I said, “ Of course, but what if the puppets were all elevated toilet paper roll puppets with rad robes and miniature instruments made of cardboard?” He loved the idea and we began to collaborate on the look, tone, and style of the video.”
About Spaceface
Spaceface is a self-described “Retro Futurist Dream Rock” (but you can call them psychedelic-pop) band from Memphis, TN and Los Angeles, CA, active since 2012. Always eavesdropping on the Universe whispering its chaotic will, the groovy bunch harnesses the transcendent pulse of the spacetime continuum into catchy songs that whirl and twirl, bend and stretch, attract and propel. Their unique alloy of dream-pop, funk-rock and post-disco, charged by the Sun, ultimately shines way past our collective bedtime, akin to a glow-in-the-dark Slime Science Lab kit.
The project’s founding members include Jake Ingalls (also of The Flaming Lips), Matt Strong, Eric Martin, and Daniel Quinlan, but the lead research team recently enrolled Los Angeles-based musical mind, Katie Pierce from Pierced, with whom sonic experiments continue. Ultimately, Spaceface’s goal is to acknowledge the blurred pain that lurks in the corners of one’s vision on a day-to-day basis while providing a brief escape for anyone who needs or desires it. In light of years of thorough research (or a dream to that effect) that have confirmed music, as an artform, to be a potent medicine for both your mind and your feet, the psych-rockers abide.
Over the course of eight years, the collective has toured all over the United States, as well as Canada, with stops at international festivals such as SXSW, Desert Daze, Canadian Music Week, Treefort Music Fest, Hangout Music Festival, God Save The Queen City and Distorsion Psych Fest. Always equipped with a state of the art light-show and/or projectors, sometimes accompanied by weirdish stage props and/or gadgets, the ever-evolving American act provides their dedicated following with thrill-inducing D.I.Y. performances that only get crazier as they perfect their experimental craft.
Since forming, Spaceface has offered timely releases that include a self-titled EP, a full-length album entitled Sun Kids, as well as a small zoo of singles and remixes featuring notable collaborations with artists such as Okey Dokey, Julianna Barwick, Mikaela Davis, Julien Baker, Penny Pitchlynn (Broncho), Phantogram, and Matt Duckworth of The Flaming Lips. After recently working with SixTwelve, an Oklahoma City education non-profit, to assist in the production of a fundraising album with several local OKC musicians, Spaceface is back with “Happens All The Time”, a polymorphing disco single that marks the first taste of new music to come from the band in 2021.
