Spinda Records has just dropped “Luminosa”, the newest single from our friends from Adiós Cometa, and it lands like a quick flash of intent. No slow warm-up, no overthought framing — just a band showing where their heads are right now, and what’s carrying them into the next record.
Alongside Fin Del Mundo, they’re easily one of our favorite bands from this part of the world, and this new single doesn’t miss.
“Luminosa” comes from the side of the group that thrives on immediacy. Emanuel puts it plainly: “Luminosa is the kind of song we love to play live: it’s very direct, very straight forward, and it wraps you from the start. It’s also a good mix of tension and relief, going from soft arpeggios to intense distortion. It’s a short track that grabs you, caresses you and then slaps you.”
That contrast — soft to crushing — isn’t dressed up as a grand concept. It’s just how the band naturally writes when they chase what feels honest in the room.
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The emotional core came from John’s writing, even if he didn’t initially set out to make a song about fear. “It is an emotion that, whether one wants it or not, we face in life. That anguish, in the end so human, is inevitable,” he says. He mentions that he didn’t intend to build a song exactly around loss or death, but that “it’s a feeling that permeates a lot of what I write, and this particular song has a lot of that existential angst.”
It’s not framed as catharsis in the dramatic sense — more a grounded acceptance of something unavoidable.
That acceptance peaks in the ending, when Mark shouts “Ya estoy mejor, soy suficiente, no tengo miedo” — “I’m better now, I’m enough, and I’m not afraid.” It’s a line he throws without theatrics, just a blunt acknowledgment of where the song lands. The title “Luminosa”, roughly meaning “bright”, “well-lit”, or “illuminated”, nods to that small shift toward clarity.
The band describes the single as sitting somewhere between the shoegaze haze they’re often associated with and the emo/post-hardcore roots they all share. They make it clear they aren’t trying to fit any tag too neatly. Their reference points range widely — 90s emo deep cuts, newer artists, different branches of shoegaze — but there’s no attempt to pin the song on a single influence. John does mention that the base melody came from trying to write “something like Sunny Day Real Estate,” an anchor that gives the track’s emotional pulse a bit of a lineage without turning it into a tribute.
Their home base in Costa Rica is part of the story too. The band points out that the local alternative scene is surprisingly active, even with the usual limitation: accessible venues are scarce.
Still, every weekend brings new shows, and more international artists are treating the country as a necessary stop. They drop a quick list of local acts moving things forward — Dylan Thomas, Marea Tranquila, Nuncamuere, A Su Ladera, Lentamente, SRUF, Wise Up*, Nomeolvides, Carla Alfaro, Todas Las Cosas — along with labels like Sello Furia and Violence Records. It paints a picture of a scene that doesn’t need a big spotlight to stay alive; it just keeps happening.
As for Adiós Cometa themselves, they’ve been locked into finishing their new record, “Un Destello de Luz”, arriving January 29th 2026 through Spinda Records in Europe, Steadfast Records in the US, and Furia in Costa Rica. They’ve already shared three singles — “Candelaria”, “El Mundo En Mis Brazos (Leonor)” and now “Luminosa” — while the remaining six songs are still unheard by anyone outside the band.
They describe the album as heavier overall, with the back half leaning even further into weight and length, edging into post-metal touches and mixing in ambient moments. It’s not framed as reinvention — more like following the threads they’ve hinted at before and letting them pull a little deeper.
They’re also prepping shows, sketching out new ideas, and talking about possible splits. A European tour is on the table for the second half of next year. They’re not pushing a narrative of transformation — just working, evolving, and moving toward the next thing without overstating it.
“Luminosa” is one piece of that movement, a quick signal flare of where Adiós Cometa are headed and what they’re wrestling with beneath the noise.
