'Space Is Still The Place' CD

Space Is Still the Place is the second full-length album by The Bright Light Social Hour, released March 10, 2015 on Frenchkiss Records.

The band has stated the album was largely inspired by the struggles of fans they stayed with while touring the Southern United States, as well as by concepts of Afrofuturism and progressivism, inspiring a philosophy and sound referred to by the band as "Future South."

In an interview with The Huffington Post, O'Brien stated, “We became really interested in mixing southern aspects of music -- soul, rock, blues, those sort of things -- with a progressive outlook, where we got really into dance music, house music, techno, psychedelic rock. We became really interested in mixing all those sounds; something future-looking and also vibey and comfortable, but different all together.”

The album title is inspired by Sun Ra's 1974 film Space Is the Place.

The album was recorded between June 2013, and January 2014, at Escondido Sound, the band's home studio in Austin, Texas. It was mixed by the band and Chris Coady in New York, NY in May 2014.

On February 17, 2015, Jay Z's Life+Times premiered the music video for the first single, "Infinite Cities", directed by bassist/singer Jackie O'Brien.

Songs from Space Is Still the Place have been featured in HBO's Vice Principals, MTV's Teen Wolf, Fox's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The CW's Riverdale, NBC's Midnight, Texas, Audience's Kingdom, USA's Shooter, Hulu's Shut Eye, Terrence Malick's 2017 film Song to Song and Ubisoft's Far Cry 5 and more.

Space Is Still the Place was described by AllMusic's Mark Deming as "an ambitious and wildly entertaining journey into the minds of the men who created it" and "a smart, fearless work from a band whose inner journey is paying impressive musical dividends."