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Blackout Transmission Share New Single “Since She Guided You Away” Taken From Forthcoming Album

February 4, 2021

Blackout Transmission Share New Single From Upcoming Debut Album 

Los Angeles quartet Blackout Transmission share a new single from their forthcoming debut album, listen to their second track on their forthcoming album entitled “Since She Guided You Away”, streaming below:

The new single “Since She Guided You Away” immediately lifts you into an era most long for. These waves of melodic melancholy flirt between the biting instrumentation

This surge of angst becomes an essential strength for this rhythmic instrumentation. Deeply rooted emotive attributes found in the soaring riffs and boisterous drum fills. The vocal notes compliment the urgency of this composition. A powerful release that strikes a chord and delivers a long-lasting impression.

Los Angeles-based post-punk shoe-gaze band Blackout Transmission summon a psychoactive rush of sound on their debut long-player Sparse Illumination out February 19, 2021 via Etxe (et-CHAY) Records.

The album has an artful intentionality and natural cadence to its composition. The meditative, atmospheric opening track “Once There” dovetails into a catchy, Bad Seeds meets Bunnymen groove of “Since She Guided You Away” wherein questions of mortality and the afterlife collide. The late-night romantic pursuit of “Tactile Responses” summons sultry Wire and Public Image Limited vibes while incorporating beautiful, bowed-like choral guitar effects. Side A flows to conclusion with the shimmering, and faster-paced, “Heavy Circles” oscillating between driving, frenetic moments and textured, ethereal passages.

Side B launches with the intoxicating and gauzy, “Verdant Return” that features jaunty melodies and blooming choruses juxtaposed with a biting, confrontational lyrical narrative. The hypnotic groove of “Pacifica” eases off the gas pedal with a psychedelic coastal exploration crossfading perfectly into “Portals” a late-night driving track replete with Storm In Heaven textures and propulsive energy framing desert-evening ruminations about space and time. “Sleepwalking Again” closes the album reflecting upon exhausting, widening income inequality and social movements with a simmer- to-a-boil composition that conjures the more reflective moments of Unwound and early Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Arrangements were rounded out with the addition of Kevin Cluppert on bass and Anthony Salazar (Teenage Wrist) on drums culminating with the band playing out in late 2019 and harnessing their live chemistry as they entered the studio in early 2020.A good portion of album was recorded at Dream Machine in Long Beach and produced by Scott Holmes (Highlands) with Goett. “Scott pushed me in the best way to reimagine elements of my approach” says Goett, “as such we captured the vibe and feel that I was seeking with these songs.” The pandemic forced Goett to finalize many of his overdubs at his home studio in Los Angeles (Twin Dragon West) as well as birthing two additional tracks included on the LP.

Collectively, the eight tracks on Sparse Illumination combine for a tight 34-minute dose of post-punk, shoegaze, and neo-psychedelia that evokes low-shutter-speed nocturnal journeys through desert canyons and winding coastal highways.

Sparse Illumination will be available on LP and download on February 19, 2021 via Etxe Records. Pre-orders are available HERE.

01. Once There0

2. Since She Guided You Away

03. Tactile Responses

04. Heavy Circles

05. Verdant Return

06. Pacifica

07. Portals

08. Sleepwalking Again

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