Blackout Transmission - Release Lead Single "Portals"

On December 10, 2020, Blackout Transmission released their lead sing Portals from their forthcoming debut long-player Sparse Illumination out in February of next year.

Treble Zine says that the single is “wrapped up in a dense, swirling array of effects, offering an otherworldly, cosmic, psychedelic illusion” with vocals “showcasing a voice that’s uncannily similar to Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch”.

Buzzbands LA details that “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.”

The Joy of Violent Movement opines that “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.”