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The first single from Spotlight's new album, Alchemy For The Dead. CD/Digital out April 28th. 2LP Vinyl out Aug 4th. Pre-order at Video by Oleg Rooz - Spotlights, the hypnotic trio featuring married couple Mario and Sarah Quintero with Chris Enriquez, release their new album, Alchemy For The Dead, on April 28 via Ipecac Recordings. The album, written and recorded following the band’s move to Pittsburgh, finds the trio once again balancing the tightrope of light and dark, toying with sonic texture, and as Invisible Oranges described Spotlights’ unique “magic” that’s “flickering with unnamable emotionality.” Mario Quintero shares the band’s mindset while writing and recording Alchemy For The Dead: “Our focus when making this record was to not repeat ourselves. I think we achieved our goal. Though we’re proud of all our releases, making just another ‘Spotlights’ album wasn’t an option. Pushing our own boundaries while creating something cathartic, yet strangely suffocating, with new sounds and textures as well as more personal and self-reflective themes, this album feels like a new fork in the path for us. Hopefully the listeners will follow.” Regarding the first single “Algorithmic“, Mario says. “For me, the song has a religious theme to it. It touches on the story of resurrection and afterlife in this one narrative, while wondering, does any of it really matter?” That narrative, one of death, the resistance and acceptance to one of life’s most secretive aspects, is a lyrical theme throughout Alchemy For The Dead. Album pre-orders, which include two 2LP vinyl variants: a standard black version and a limited-edition gold edition available exclusively via and on the band’s upcoming Alchemy For The Dead tour, can be found here: Vinyl is slated for an Aug. 4 release. Alchemy For The Dead 2023 Tour Dates April 26 Pittsburgh, PA Club Café April 27 Grand Rapids, MI Pyramid Scheme April 28 Chicago, IL Subterranean Downstairs April 29 Tolono, IL Loose Cobra April 30 St. Louis, MO Red Flag May 1 Kansas City, MO Mini Bar May 3 Denver, CO Hi Dive May 4 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court May 6 Sacramento, CA Club Colonial May 7 San Francisco, CA Winters Tavern May 11 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium* May 12 San Diego, CA Tower Bar May 14 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues* May 16 Denver, CO Mission Ballroom* May 17 Salt Lake City, UT Union Event Center* May 19 Seattle, WA Showbox* May 20 Seattle, WA Showbox* May 21 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom* May 23 Oakland, CA Fox Theater* May 24 Oakland, CA Fox Theater* May 27 Denton, TX Dan’s Silverleaf May 28 Austin, TX Hotel Vegas May 30 Tulsa, OK Whittier Bar May 31 Shreveport, LA Bear’s June 1 Little Rock, AR Mutants Fest June 2 Nashville, TN Drkmttr June 3 Atlanta, GA The Earl June 4 Gainesville, FL The Backyard June 9 Miami, FL Gramp’s June 10 Tampa, FL The Orpheum June 11 Orlando, FL TBA June 13 Columbia, SC TBA June 14 Charlotte, NC Snug Harbor June 15 Asheville, NC The Odd June 16 Knoxville, TN The Pilot Light June 17 Louisville, KY Kaiju Bar June 18 Columbus, OH Big Room Bar June 21 Harrisonburg, VA The Golden Pony June 22 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery June 23 Philadelphia, PA Ortlieb’s June 24 Brooklyn, NY Saint Vitus *-Ipecac Geek Show performances with Mr. Bungle & Melvins Birdhands open on dates between April 27 to May 1. Rile open from May 3 to May 6. Alchemy For The Dead tracklist: 1. Beyond The Broken Sky 2. The Alchemist 3. Sunset Burial 4. Algorithmic 5. False Gods 6. Repeat The Silence 7. Ballad In The Mirror 8. Crawling Toward The Light 9. Alchemy For The Dead Spotlights is Mario Quintero (guitar, vocals, keys), Sarah Quintero (bass, vocals) and Chris Enriquez (drums). The band has released three albums to date: Tidals (2016), Seismic (2018) and Love & Decay (2019). Consequence praised their “unique amalgam of sounds that is both heavy and heavenly,” Brooklyn Vegan said Spotlights “balances the pretty with metallic sludge,” and Invisible Oranges said they thrive “on the ambient and krautrock inspired edges of post-metal.” In the wake of their 2020 EP We Are All Atomic, Kerrang! observed, “That a band as heavy and romantic as Spotlights have become a fixture in the rock scene Is impressive; that they’ve done it in such a short period of time is tremendous.”
