Spotlights - The Particle Noise
“The Particle Noise” is the second single from the forthcoming Spotlights album, Love & Decay, which drops April 26.
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Guitarist/vocalist Mario Quintero talks about the meaning behind the track, "’The Particle Noise’ is a multi-dimensional song. Mainly being a love story about the beginning of the universe. A moment so intense that it encapsulates what it means to exist. This all being a metaphor for this person’s infatuation with another, so strong it tears them to pieces and reforms them over and over."
When Spotlights’ viscous sludge-based shoegaze sound first arrived in 2016, on their debut album, Tidals, it captivated musician/producer Aaron Harris, who brought it to the attention of Chino Moreno of the Deftones. Impressed, the Deftones invited Spotlights to open during their summer U.S. tour. Spotlights followed by sharing the stage with the Melvins, Quicksand, Hum, Glassjaw, Pelican, and Pallbearer.
“The Particle Noise” is superb, glistening with great irregular clots of light amalgamated with the Skiaffarilla, shadows blacker than black. The effect is totally hypnotic.
Signing with Ipecac Recordings, Spotlight released Seismic in 2017, followed by an EP, Hanging By Faith, in 2018. Since then, Spotlights, made up of Sarah Quintero (bass, guitar, vocals) and Mario Quintero (guitar, synths, vocals), added Chris Enriquez (drums) as a permanent member.
“The Particle Noise” opens on stridently gleaming guitars and a cavernous substantial bass line atop a measured liquescent melody forming a dreamy, muscular soundscape. The blend of woozy shoegaze flavors and thick, dark sludge infuses the tune with layers of undulating textures and coagulated surfaces.
A psychedelic doom-like breakdown flows into oozing, shuddering bass reverberations, like the pillars of heaven are shaking in sepulchral gravitational throes, as a luminous synth injects twirling accents.
Quintero’s wistful voice, vague and gossamer-hued, drifts and glides pensively on lingering filaments. As his voice floats by, sonic sensations occur cerebrally, encompassing the listener in gauzy envelopes.
“The Particle Noise” is superb, glistening with great irregular clots of light amalgamated with the Skiaffarilla, shadows blacker than black. The effect is totally hypnotic.
