BALTHVS Release Psychedelic Album 'MANIFEST' and Launch 16-Date U.S. Tour

Some bands release an album and wait to see what happens. BALTHVS put the record out and got in the van. The Bogotá psychedelic trio released MANIFEST through Mixto Records and launched a 16-date U.S. headline tour the following day, That Eric Alper reported — a rollout that treats the album not as an announcement but as a starting gun. Grateful Web reported the same release-and-tour pairing, with the run opening October 8 at the Moonshiner's Ball in Livingston, Kentucky, and rolling through the end of the month. Tonight, October 13, the tour plays The Atlantis in Washington, DC, which means the record is being road-tested in real time, in front of American audiences, less than a week after it arrived.

A Trio That Keeps Widening the Map

BALTHVS are a guitar, bass and drums trio from Bogotá, Colombia, and their whole proposition is range: funk and disco sitting next to dream pop, soul, R&B and rhythms drawn from well beyond the Americas. The Hype Magazine reported on the band's global-unity themes ahead of the album, describing a group pushing its adventurous approach into a new chapter, and The Concert Chronicles reported that MANIFEST draws on jazz, funk, cumbia and traditional Middle Eastern music in building its hypnotic sound. That breadth is the identity. Where a lot of psychedelic rock looks inward, BALTHVS keep adding passports — and, as That Eric Alper noted in its release report, the connection between the three players stays at the centre while the influences stretch across continents and decades. Relix has praised the band's genre-hungry take on neo-psychedelia, and the new album reads like the trio widening that appetite rather than narrowing it for radio.

Inside MANIFEST: 11 Tracks, One Long Trip

The track listing, as published by That Eric Alper and confirmed in Grateful Web's report, runs 11 songs: "In-N-Out (Goin' Downtown)," "Liminal Stages," "Motion (For Ashra)," "Rare Psalms," "Eternal Flow," "Pale Blue Dot," "Flesh and Soul," "Year of the Snake," "Sunday Forecast," "(World Is) More Than I Can Handle" and "Kilig." Even the titles sketch the journey — cosmic one moment ("Pale Blue Dot"), earthy and physical the next ("Flesh and Soul"). According to Grateful Web, early previews of the album centred on "Eternal Flow" and "Liminal Stages," which were featured in a special preview offering ahead of release, while "Motion (For Ashra)" tips its hat to Manuel Göttsching's Ashra project — a nod to the German Kosmische Musik tradition that runs underneath so much modern psychedelia. The band has framed the album's title as a statement of intent: the group said, via Grateful Web, that "true alchemy lies in knowing yourself," and described the album as the product of committing entirely to that knowledge and purpose after half a decade of work. It is, by every account, a headphones record that is also built for a stage — grooves first, atmosphere everywhere, and enough open space for three musicians to stretch.

16 Dates, 16 Different Shows

The tour is where MANIFEST becomes a living thing. That Eric Alper reported that BALTHVS change their setlists every night — a habit that turns a 16-date run into 16 distinct events and rewards fans who catch more than one stop. The routing, published by both That Eric Alper and Grateful Web and confirmed in Ticketmaster's listings, runs: October 8 in Livingston, Kentucky (Moonshiner's Ball); October 9 in Atlanta (Aisle 5); October 10 in Charleston (Music Farm); October 11 in Asheville (Eulogy); October 13 in Washington, DC (The Atlantis); October 14 in Philadelphia (Ardmore Music Hall); October 16 in Austin (Meanwhile Brewing); October 17 in Chicago (Ramova Theatre); October 18 in Detroit (El Club); October 20 in Denver (Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom); October 22 in San Diego (The Holding Company); October 23 in Los Angeles (The Regent Theater); October 24 in Felton (Felton Music Hall); October 25 in San Francisco (The Independent); October 29 in Portland (The Get Down); and October 30 in Bellingham (The Wild Buffalo). According to Grateful Web, further dates across North America, Europe and Australia into 2027 are expected to be announced, which fits a band whose audience has been built city by city, continent by continent. Our Music section is tracking the fall tour season across genres, and this run belongs on any psychedelic fan's calendar next to the season's other big road announcements in the newsroom.

Why This Run Matters

There is a particular kind of momentum that only comes from doing exactly this — releasing the most expansive record of your career and immediately defending it on stage, nightly, in rooms sized for connection rather than spectacle. BALTHVS have built an international audience by trusting that three musicians playing together can hold a very large world of sound, and MANIFEST, by the accounts collected here, is that world getting bigger: a sixth chapter for a band that treats psychedelia as a meeting place for funk, cumbia, kosmische and soul rather than a museum style. If you are anywhere near the remaining dates — Denver, the California run, the Pacific Northwest closers — the nightly-setlist habit means the show you get is the only one of its kind. Catch the rest of our release-week coverage in , browse the wider newsroom for the day's stories, and hear bands like BALTHVS discussed across Previously's podcast library. For another major tour story this week, see our coverage of Calvin Harris's first North American headline tour.