Spacey Jane Brings The Noise

Spacey Jane Brings The Noise

BY Erica Campbell | Jan 16, 2025

Spacey Jane’s “All The Noise” is a bouncy track about the soul-crushing nature of rejection. It's the kind of indie rock offering that makes you remember why you’d even fall in love in the first place, spelling out truths and vulnerable revelations over driving guitar parts and buoyant drums.

The music video for the track, premiering today on PAPER, is a perfect reflection of that vibe, depicting the band taking over a gas station and playing live as a relationship crumbles and their bank accounts empty — they can’t pay for their fuel, but can they trash their instruments while crashing out over the demise of a relationship? Absolutely!

According to frontman Caleb Harper, "All The Noise" came to be "in a Sydney hotel room in May 2023."

"I was trying to finish another track off the album and getting frustrated with it. It was my first time back in Australia in over six months and I think something about being back home was confusing all of these memories of childhood and my parents’ life before I was in it," he tells PAPER. "It’s an unsuccessful attempt at reconciling the versions of the story that made me and the unresolved bitter tastes."

The riotous track acts as a first sneak peek of the Australian indie band's third album, If That Makes Sense, which is gearing up for release on May 9.

Below, Harper talks to PAPER about transmuting the energy of "All The Noise" into a cheeky video, what the shift between their upcoming album and last album — 2022's Here Comes Everybody — was like and tells us what we can expect from the band next.

How did you take the inspiration behind the song and transmute that idea into the video? What was the process of making the visuals like?

That is, in large part, thanks to the brilliant work of our director and all-round creative oracle, Dan Lesser. He leaned into the themes of anger and rejection that I sing about and the freneticism of the music. We wanted to explore how youth is full of misdirected rage and pent-up frustration, and how that manifests in different ways. We had a lot of fun making the clip, it was the most involved piece of video we’ve ever made. We had a dozen or more crew on set and spent the day out in Palmdale and felt like movie stars for a minute or two.

What’s the biggest difference — sonically and thematically — between If That Makes Sense and your last album, Here Comes Everybody?

Personally, the record feels almost alien to what we’ve made in the past. I know that there are a multitude of self-references and small evolutions, but the context of the record feels as foreign as it could be. It was written and recorded in LA over a two year period, the first time we’ve ever stepped foot outside of Australia to make music, and I feel that influence throughout. Thematically, the album was made under the stress and vulnerability of moving to a new country and because of that, questions about identity and sense of self weave throughout the songs. Sonically, I think we’re just getting closer and closer to making a record sound exactly the way we want to hear it. It feels like we’ve made something that is the most refined and intentional we could have.

You worked with producer Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, Wolf Alice, The 1975) on the album. What was it like to have him as a creative partner?

Mike is amazing! It’s hard to put into a few sentences exactly what it was like working with him, but I’ll try. He has a way of diving into every single detail while [having] both eyes on the big picture. He allowed us the freedom to experiment and fail and really steadied the ship. He has a strong sense of direction but balances that by listening to and incorporating all of the voices in the room.

What can fans expect from If That Makes Sense? What do you hope they will walk away with after hearing the album?

I think we sound older [laughs]. I’m not sure if that’s just because we feel older … I also think the album feels the most sure of itself that anything we’ve made has felt. I hope that people walk away feeling like we made this the best record we could and most of all I hope that it soundtracks a part of their life and can mean something important to them.

What are you most excited to share with your fans next?

Many, many touring dates! But that’s all hush-hush for now.

Photography: Cole Barash