The Spiritual Machines, led by producer/musician Evan Frankfort, release new single “You Can’t Hear Me” from its upcoming LP Lockhearted (out 8/16), a concept album inspired by Ray Kurzweil and his prediction that computers would develop souls. As the album opener, the song finds Frankfort pleading for connection in an increasingly divided world over glossy synths, hard-hitting percussion and expressive horns that evoke the lush sounds of the 1980s. The track arrives with a hypnotic animated official video to accompany it.

Of the track, Frankfort shares: “How can we be communicating so clearly and somehow not connecting? We have two ears and one mouth…we should listen twice as much as we speak.  We must offer the desire to hear if we want to be heard.”