With a release date just under two months away, the latest Dais Records signees gear up for their self-titled debut LP with an ambitious new song.

Featuring members of Ceremony and Sabertooth Zombie, Spice balance their lightning-in-a-bottle urgency by interspersing melodies and layers, creating depth without oversaturating. The treatment of each song on their self-titled debut is a statement that informs the whole; anecdotes that can bleed slowly or swirl quickly. As a collective thought, this self-titled debut album — out July 17th on Dais Records — offers a deliberate isolation of pain as interpreted through different vehicles.

The nine tracks on Spice divert 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. The band’s second single, ‘All My Best Shit’ examines pain though an introspective lens. The end result sounds freewheeling, despite lyrics about being tethered to one’s own anxiety. Listen to ‘All My Best Shit’ along with an accompanying music video directed by Spice, now on YouTube.

Honed over late nights at Panda Studios in Fremont, California with producer Sam Pura (Basement, The Story So Far, Self Defense Family), Spice spent hours refining their debut release until it became a little world formed by what they refer to as “the power of groupthink.” Sprinkled with field recordings—audio snapshots from the member’s every-day-lives—the record offers an intimate twist that builds on its theme of a single thread that connects everything with continuity, making it a single organism with as many depths as questions. Spice‘s sound pulls from the sense of melody and drive inherent to their hometown 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 its inner narrative and exploration of affliction.

Spice consists of: Ross Farrar (vocals), Cody Sullivan (bass), Jake Casarotti (drums), Ian Simpson (guitar), and Victoria Skudlarek (violin). The entire band comes from the bay area (the Northbay to be exact). Most of the band resides in Santa Rosa, California, while Jake Casarotti lives in Rohnert Park and Ross Farrar lives in Los Angeles.

SPICE IS PAIN

Spice, tracklisting:
1. First Feeling
2. All My Best Shit
3. Murder
4. Reward Trip
5. 26 Dogs
6. VO the Night
7. Black Car
8. The Building Was Gone
9. I Don’t Wanna Die in New York

‘All My Best Shit’ video credits:
Directed and produced by Spice
Edited by Brian Sowell
Rest in power RJ.