Full Album Review - Sound & Vision Musica (Mexico City)
Sound and Vision Musica — a blog based in Mexico City (CDMX) provided a full-album review “Sparse Illumination” the debut LP by Blackout Transmission:
“With much fanfare we welcome Blackout Transmission onto our radar. It is one of the finest bands to come out of Los Angeles, California recently; a quartet that rocks between alternative rock and shoegaze. Take in the reverb and as if that weren’t enough, dream from time to time of flying over ethereal winds.
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.
Christopher Goett (vocals, guitars), Kevin Cluppert (bass), Anthony Salazar (drums) and Adam D’Zurilla (guitars) are releasing one of the most spectacular debut albums of this year and other recent years. They sound like a light in the dark; a hope in the face of adversity. They sound like so many things that stir the fibers and take sighs. And we rub our hands over what may be the beginning of a promising career.”