Sparse Illumination by Blackout Transmission

Sparse Illumination
Blackout Transmission | 2
Etxe Records & Productions | 26

Press for Album:

"Their first full-length album, Sparse Illumination, is a whole host of sound influences and well-channeled emotions. The eight tracks combine for 34 minutes of exodus into the sunsets that seek the moon, towards dreams and between the electric waves of those guitars that form layers that suffocate everything else. The 80s are a source of inspiration and the 90s are the boost their music needs to spawn little hymns that will bring to mind names like Echo and the Bunnymen, Ride, or Teenage Fanclub. . . They sound like a light in the dark; a hope in the face of adversity. "
- SOUND & VISION MUSICA (CDMX)

"The L.A. quartet’s debut album summons the powers of ’80s and ’90s British post-punk and shoegaze bands, majestic on tracks such as “Portals”, or dark and anxious in “Heavy Circles,” or floating on *something* on “Pacifica.” For fans of guitars, and beautiful blurs of textures."
- Buzzbands LA

“Sparse Illumination nails the shimmering, chiming guitar sounds of the 80s Liverpool and Manchester scenes ... this is above all an album dripping in psych...it delivers an abundance of mesmeric moments that touch the stratosphere ... this soundscape has more than enough candlepower to light up our permanent pandemic twilight.”
-Echoes & Dust

Press for Tracks:

"The album’s touchstones include the likes of Echo & the Bunnymen, Ride, the Telescopes and Chapterhouse, but the first single “Portals,” with its shimmering grandiosity, actually recalls the dark, first-album music of the Verve. Take it as the first dose of their long-playing intoxicant."
- Buzzbands LA

"Portals opens with a dusty tremolo guitar sound, like a grungier Duane Eddy, with vocalist Christopher Goett showcasing a voice that’s uncannily similar to Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch. It’s a fuzzy, hard-driving rock ‘n’ roll track at heart, but it’s wrapped up in a dense, swirling array of effects, offering an otherworldly, cosmic, psychedelic illusion without ever taking its feet off the ground."
- Treble

Blackout Transmission is a band formed in Los Angeles, CA now residing in the Mountain West that compose and play neo-psychedelic rock music with UK shoegaze and darkwave influences.

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