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Jake Ingalls<\/b>\u2019 trajectory through the lysergic streams of psychedelic rock is the worthy subject of a biography. From adoring fan to makeshift stagehand to studio collaborator, Ingalls forged a remarkable relationship with venerated rockers The Flaming Lips<\/b>, even bringing his pal Matthew Strong<\/b> aboard the Lips\u2019 caravan as guitar tech.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no wonder that Ingalls and Strong, musical friends since middle school, would end up in an outfit like Spaceface<\/b>, a psych rock band that\u2019s uniformly informed by the pleasant-living bacchanalia of \u201970s soft rock and the jammy, \u201cthis band has chops\u201d intricacies of prog. Borne out of Memphis and honed in Los Angeles, Spaceface is rounded out by fellow founding member Eric Martin<\/b> (another childhood pal), Daniel Quinlan<\/b> and Katie Pierce<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe three of us that started the band have all openly admitted that while we played guitar a little bit before, the desire to start and perform in a band was ignited after we saw \u2018School of Rock<\/b>,\u2018\u201d Ingalls said to PureHoney<\/b>. \u201cWe all kinda converged with discovering Deerhunter<\/b>, Tame Impala<\/b>, Beach House<\/b> and a few other bands emerging around that time. These days, Eric is more keyed into \u201960s style song writing and arrangements and I’m still focused on wacky tones, sneaky psych and psych pop music.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band makes the most of its incredible chemistry and chameleon adaptability to varying producers and collaborators. Since bursting onto the scene in 2012 as featured artists on the Flaming Lips\u2019 conceptual take on King Crimson<\/b>, \u201cPlaying Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn<\/b>,\u201d Spaceface have delivered a raft of well-received EPs and singles as well as a phenomenal debut album in 2017, \u201cSun Kids<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Their latest, \u201cAnemoia<\/b>,\u201d defined as \u201ca longing for a place you have never actually experienced,\u201d is the product of a serious time commitment in Oklahoma\u2019s Blackwatch Studios<\/b> and continues the band\u2019s sound with further cues from the worlds of yacht rock and funk. If anything, the more open they become to other genres, the more aligned they become with their self-description as a \u201cretro futurist rock band.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concept of anemoia \u2014 which Ingalls discovered in John Koenig<\/b>‘s \u201cDictionary of Obscure Sorrows<\/b>\u201d \u2014 resonated with the band\u2019s love for language that whittles down complex subjects into a single word or simple phrase. \u201cIt’s like poetry in the simplest form,\u201d they said. \u201cOr really fun vocabulary homework. The English language doesn’t have a lot of that so you tend to look elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnemoia\u201d also gains focus from band members\u2019 keen awareness of how the media glamorize bygone eras, and from their deep interest in the cultish subtext of the 2013 documentary, \u201cThe Institute<\/b>.\u201d Ingalls playfully recalled purchasing second-hand \u201970s clothes and being confronted by their dad: \u201che said to me, \u2018you know nobody actually wore those marble print shirts, right? That was just in advertising,\u2019 and I’d scoff and say ‘well it’s cool so I’m gonna wear it.\u2019\u201d Only to realize that now, with the passing of time, younger people are emulating the outlandish fashions of early aughts Vodafone<\/b> ads.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this record, I really wanted to lean into that by trying to arrange music in the old-school way, pretending that we were the backdrop band for this cult, then go in and add big subby bass and crazy synths with reckless abandon,\u201d they said, noting the band\u2019s underlining desire to sound like a \u201970s outfit with modern tools.<\/p>\n

One idea they\u2019re tinkering with involves taking specific song elements from a fruitful 2020, 12-day writing and recording session held at Sonic Ranch<\/b> in Texas, running them through DJ decks and Serato<\/b> software in order to remix the song before completion, and then writing on top of that \u2014 essentially flipping the band\u2019s writing process on its head. \u201cI think it could be fun but I wouldn\u2019t know what genre that would turn out to be,\u201d Ingalls joked.<\/p>\n

Beyond the sonic, Spaceface go above and beyond so that fans at their shows never succumb to anemoia. With an improvised lighting rig that Quinlan\u2019s been tinkering with over the years and a rotating menagerie of props, Spaceface are invested in the immersive experience of music. After all, as fans first, they can appreciate giving theirs that extra bang for the buck.<\/p>\n

Spaceface play Bumblefest Saturday, Sept. 3 in downtown West Palm Beach. <\/b>bumblefest.com<\/b><\/a> ~ Abel Folgar<\/b><\/p>\n

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