June 13, 2024: Today, The Spiritual Machines, led by producer/musician Evan Frankfort, have announced that their new album Lockhearted will release on August 16. 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 kaleidoscopically cosmic music video. Magnet Magazine praised the song saying it “finds its happy place in the gray area between prog rock and the more classicist ’80s new wave of bands like Tears For Fears.” 

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 countless TV themes including for Dance Moms and The Wendy Williams Show, was the primary keyboardist. French drummer Matt LeChavalier (ETHS & Headcharger, My Ruin, Full Blown Rose, Whiskey Falls) rounds out the quartet.