BLACKOUT TRANSMISSION

“As far as debut albums go, it just doesn’t get any better than this. Despite relying heavily on guitars to fuel their often dense formula, synth is also used when necessary, and it all complements Goett’s well-timed and underrated vocal presence. . . Even though they may come off like a UK band from around 1985 with their cautious, ominous punk and hazy shoegaze formula, Blackout Transmission, actually reside in sunny Los Angeles.”

“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.”

“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.” ”

“Sparse Illumination‘s latest single is brooding and expansive . . . centered around a sinuous bass line, thunderous drumming, swirling reverb and delay pedaled guitar . . . [with] lyrics offering meditations on space, time and love, “Portals” possesses the sort of painterly and lysergic textures of A Storm in Heaven but paired with a widescreen, cinematic quality.”