Spice - Spice - Clear Blue - VINYL LP

As a collective thought, Spice's Self-Titled debut album offers a deliberate isolation of pain as interpreted through different vehicles. Less than 30-minutes in length, the record diverts from a singular mood, tempo, or delivery, instead focusing on orchestrating emotional drain as single impulses-fast, slow, driving, simple, and layered-that coalesce in their machinations. At it's core, Spice's Self-Titled album is wired together by brawny and brittle guitars, lock-groove rhythms, and vocals announce each moment and mood. Formed in 2018 and based across California, each members' roots are in the North Bay of San Francisco. Comprised of Ross Farrar (vocals) and Jake Casarotti (drums), both of Ceremony, along with Cody Sullivan (bass), Ian Simpson (guitar), and Victoria Skudlarek (violin), Spice's sound pulls from the sense of melody and drive inherent to Bay Area pedigree, peppered with modernity and awash with an anthemic haze. The hook is in the connection as much as melody, with each song building it's inner narrative and exploration of affliction.Traversing guitar-driven indie-pop and call-to-action impulse, Spice balances their urgency by interspersing violin melodies and layers, creating depth without oversaturating the heart of each song. Building complexity with laser focus, Spice shares the authoritative drive of Jawbreaker, J Church, The Horrors, and Fugazi, set in their own world of unrest. The treatment of each song is a statement that informs the whole - anecdotes that can bleed slowly or swirl quickly. In a sense, the Self-Titled album itself is an entire song, with each track becoming the verses, choruses, and interludes that narrate it's intent. Ending with the final track they workshopped for the album titled InchI Don't Wanna Die in New York,Inch the album ends with a punch before winding back into meditation. Honed over late nights at Panda Studios

The second LP by California rock n roll unit Spice expands their palette of damaged anthems and addiction poetics with a more bristling, visceral sound, distilled from years in the trenches of bands, break-ups, and breakdowns. Singer Ross Farrar explains their chemistry succinctly InchWe all got in a room and this is what came out.Inch Viv is named for a precursor project of bassist Cody Sullivan and violinist Victoria Skudlarek, but also alludes to broader notions of vividness, sonic, visual, and otherwise. Engineered by Jack Shirley and mixed/mastered by Sam Pura in Oakland, the mix achieves that rare balance of every element being elevated but distinct, with voices, strings, and drums each given space to blaze parallel paths. Opener InchRecoveryInch captures Spice at their stormy, weathered best, booming drums and East Bay riffs skidding out in a rockslide of rapture, regret, and bruised melody (InchYou sacrifice perfect days to laugh through the night / you have to get out of bed / and it's hard / and it's hard / it's so hard to admitInch), peaking in Ian Simpson's poignant single-note vibrato guitar solo; Farrar agrees InchThe guitar says what we cannot.Inch Other tracks embrace the group's shredded pop potential (InchAny Day Now,Inch InchDining Out,Inch InchLive SceneInch) and their speedway ripper mode (InchThrenodyInch), with detours into oblique instrumentals (InchMelody DriveInch) and orchestral balladeering (InchAshes In The BirdbathInch). But what unites and ignites these songs across different energies and arrangements is their specific sense of emotion. Rawness refined into reckonings, approaching truth, born of cold mornings, bad luck, and too many wrong turns. Waking up where you're not supposed to be, living a life you don't recognize. The album ends with no end to it's narrative, still fighting, still slipping. Farrar calls InchClimbing Down The La

The second LP by California rock n roll unit Spice expands their palette of damaged anthems and addiction poetics with a more bristling, visceral sound, distilled from years in the trenches of bands, break-ups, and breakdowns. Singer Ross Farrar explains their chemistry succinctly InchWe all got in a room and this is what came out.Inch Viv is named for a precursor project of bassist Cody Sullivan and violinist Victoria Skudlarek, but also alludes to broader notions of vividness, sonic, visual, and otherwise. Engineered by Jack Shirley and mixed/mastered by Sam Pura in Oakland, the mix achieves that rare balance of every element being elevated but distinct, with voices, strings, and drums each given space to blaze parallel paths. Opener InchRecoveryInch captures Spice at their stormy, weathered best, booming drums and East Bay riffs skidding out in a rockslide of rapture, regret, and bruised melody (InchYou sacrifice perfect days to laugh through the night / you have to get out of bed / and it's hard / and it's hard / it's so hard to admitInch), peaking in Ian Simpson's poignant single-note vibrato guitar solo; Farrar agrees InchThe guitar says what we cannot.Inch Other tracks embrace the group's shredded pop potential (InchAny Day Now,Inch InchDining Out,Inch InchLive SceneInch) and their speedway ripper mode (InchThrenodyInch), with detours into oblique instrumentals (InchMelody DriveInch) and orchestral balladeering (InchAshes In The BirdbathInch). But what unites and ignites these songs across different energies and arrangements is their specific sense of emotion. Rawness refined into reckonings, approaching truth, born of cold mornings, bad luck, and too many wrong turns. Waking up where you're not supposed to be, living a life you don't recognize. The album ends with no end to it's narrative, still fighting, still slipping. Farrar calls InchClimbing Down The La