Spacey Jane - Exit Wounds [Red]

Spacey Jane follow their third album with Exit Wounds, a six-song EP of heartbreak and hooks, pressed here on red vinyl.

The Perth band wrote these songs during the sessions for 2025's If That Makes Sense, then realised they belonged together rather than on the album. Recorded largely in Los Angeles with Day Wave producing and Lars Stalfors mixing, the EP keeps the bright, jangling guitars and big-hearted choruses that made them one of Australia's most loved indie rock bands, while Caleb Harper's lyrics pick through the messy end of a relationship.

I Never See Her opens things with real urgency, a song the band sped up dramatically from its first, much slower draft. The middle of the record keeps the momentum high, and East Village went to radio on release day as the EP's third single. The closer Do You Really Love Her, produced by John Hill and co-written with Sarah Aarons and Joel Little, deliberately nods to the 1980s Australian pub rock of INXS and Icehouse.

Short, sharp and built for repeat plays, it is the sound of a band with plenty left to say between albums. The red pressing gives these bruised, sunlit songs a fittingly vivid home on the shelf.