[Cover photo credit to Caroline Malouf]

The Spiritual Machines, led by Producer/musician Evan Frankfort, have announced that their new album Lockhearted will arrive on August 16, 2024. The LP is a “loose concept album,” inspired by pioneer/futurist Ray Kurzweil and his 1999 book The Age Of Spiritual Machines where he predicted that computers would eventually develop souls. The band has also shared first single “The Mirror and the Dancer” and its cosmic music video.

Frankfort says about the song:

My daughters are dancers and I see myself as a mirror to remind them of who they are. When they hold the mirror, I realize I’m the one doing the dance. Our identities are known to us only in playback, never in a moment.

Lockhearted builds on Frankfort’s legacy in record production, film/TV scoring and electronic and experimental sound design. Over the years, Frankfort has worked with Liz Phair, Pete Yorn, Plain White T’s, the Wallflowers, Warren Zevon, and many others.

Frankfort shares about the album:

It’s a love letter to my family. If I were to die today, these were the things that I wanted to say. These are the issues that I wanted to talk about, and leave as food for thought. 

Frankfort wrote, produced and mixed all of the songs, as well as sang, played guitar, keyboards and bass. Future Aaron, a frequent collaborator of Frankfort’s, shared vocal duties and played bass, while Craig Owens, known for composing TV themes, was the primary keyboardist. French drummer Matt LeChavalier (ETHS & Headcharger, My Ruin, Full Blown Rose, Whiskey Falls) rounds out the quartet.