This record is for all the dreamers out there. For all the humans in search of escapism and abstraction. ‘Twilight & Resonance’ is exactly what you were looking for. Penned by New Mexico-based post-punk and shoegaze outfit Blackout Transmission, the album feels as expansive and sonically large as it could be. Fuzzy and spacious guitar tones create a sense of infinity in each song, an aural dreamscape that’s lush and intense, quite poignant too. Opener ‘La Tierra Drift’ is the perfect evidence of that.
Later on, ‘Twilight & Resonance’ seems to blink an eye to ethereal, shimmering indie-pop (’Ultra Azul’ and ‘When The Aspens Turn’), but always coming back home to noisy and chaotic post-punk goodness (‘Las Estrellas En Alta’). A certain cinematic prowess is observed in ‘Calantha Dawn’, with the track itself offering a whirlwind of opposing emotions and personal catharsis. Whichever way you look at it, there’s no doubt that ‘Twilight & Resonance’ threads the fine line between spacious escapism and urban chaos, a contrast that can also be found in the collective’s own creative space, moving between Los Angeles and the New Mexican desert-laden natural landscape.
Packing eight malleable and chill pieces, ‘Twilight & Resonance’ is also available in a dark purple vinyl edition, featuring design and layout work by Jeff Holmes and original artwork by Jonathan Keeton. Overall, the record marks out point of entry into Blackout Transmission’s artistic universe, a space we won’t be forgetting anytime soon.
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