Here Comes Everybody

The timing couldn’t have been worse. Fremantle four-piece Spacey Jane were about to release their 2020 debut album, Sunlight, when COVID struck and Western Australia shut its borders. With all tours cancelled, guitarist/vocalist Caleb Harper coped the only way he knew how: by getting to work writing the follow-up. “These songs were a response to feeling like my world was falling apart because I couldn’t tour anymore,” he tells Apple Music. “This intense anxiety came with it. I felt like, I’ve got to do something, and writing was it.” Taking its name from the working title Wilco gave their 2001 LP, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot—Harper sought Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy’s permission to use the title, a request that was duly granted—Spacey Jane’s second album is awash with lush indie-rock hooks and harmonies. Its lyrics, however, speak of dark times mentally and emotionally, as Harper reveals in this track-by-track breakdown. “Sitting Up” “It was the last song written for the record. It’s kind of talking about how I was a bit of a chameleon in my early years of college—my first foray into the world after moving out of home. I had a full-blown identity crisis that’s probably still going, to be honest. I was trying to be everything to everyone. I just drank too much. I didn’t like myself because I didn’t know who I was.” “Lunchtime” “‘Lunchtime’ is the second or first song I wrote for the album, back in the very early days of COVID. I wrote it about this relationship I was in that had broken down four months prior, and I tried to tell this weird Natural Born Killers version of it where it was me watching a version of myself that I hated on this date, going to this weird desert, put to really fast music.” “Lots of Nothing” “That song’s one of the earliest we wrote. It’s just about feeling like a piece of shit—along with half of the album.” “Clean My Car” “Something I’ve experienced a lot with depression is feeling like there’s no point doing anything at all. In this song, it’s a