Spotlight (Jamie Shertick album)

Spotlight is an upcoming debut album by film director and musician Jamie Shertick, produced by Shertick and an ad hoc supergroup The Deadlights Collective (featuring artists, "from as far as the Internet itself"), to be released by Dot Records, Jamie Shertick Productions (under it's Matrix 7 Records pseudonym) and Crystal Records.

It was announced to be released in February 2019, for Spotify Premium customers, but on November 20th, Shertick briefly leaked the album and had it up for free download for one hour, partially as a protest for album exclusivity for specific streaming services.

The album features many guest appearances, such as Bon Iver, Sigur Ros and known mysterious singer Shiloh, known for appearing in XXXTentacion's album 17. It's noted for the maximalist approach, a wide variety of genres it covers and the amount of tracks, which is around 150, being a preference by Jamie in order to have enough material to "distract people, while he is doing movies". He also mentions the possibility of a second album being slim, but plausible.

Confirmed tracks

 * "Trash Man" is an experimental glitch/noise song, that mainly features a sample of Danny DeVito saying "Trash man", taken out of a clip of his TV series It's Always Sunny in the Philadelphia. The song is mainly produced by Shertick, the Ed Banger artists SebastiAn, Mr. Oizo and Justice, Andy Morin and Zack Hill of Death Grips, and Aphex Twin.
 * "Reflections" is an ambient song, featuring Bon Iver and Sigur Ros.
 * "[What Am I Doing?] is a sad song, which covers such things as depression and suicidal thoughts, and it's supposed to connect with Reflections, hence the intro being kinda weird and stuff"
 * "Dedicated to Dad (D2D)" is a synthwave track, solely produced by Shertick, as a dedication to film director Stuart Shertick, Jamie's father.
 * Several freestyle tracks, two with instrumentals from Otis and 4:44 respectively, used with permission. Shertick says to have modified them to his liking for the album.

Production
Shertick mentioned that he started doing the album around the time he started writing movies and producing. He had to halt the production of his comic book, The Agents of WHOMPER, that he co-writes with Brad Chandler, and even temporarily retired from directing, producing and writing, in order to continue the production of the album in perfect speed.

During production, the producers taught Shertick on music production, for the upcoming album, since he knew they wouldn't be back together as TDC for the second album, leaving him to consider solely producing the second album.