Album Review/ Post Rock : Blackout Transmission’s ‘Twilight & Resonance’

The listening experience of Blackout Transmission’s ‘Twilight & Resonance’ is extraordinary. A collection that grows full with dazing textures, vibrations, and luminosity. Sound that is dimensionalized with space and human emotions. It’s as if the artist introduced the song through the filters of the human experience. And what comes out on the other side carries beautiful moments of it. It’s not just sound, it’s a sense of style that is viscerally informed by a sense of self. 

The album opens with ‘La Tierra Drift’. It’s a sound that comes out of the song. A mellow acoustic guitar line floats within a moody atmospheric drift of riffs and synths. Like a fly caught in amber, the song contrasts sharp sounds with dazed and dispersed moments. An interesting post rock performance. Even in tracks like ‘Calantha Dawn’ and ‘Las Estrellas En Alfa’, we see these sounds floating into each other. Like clouds passing through each other. The spatial patterns and explorations that the artists get into are quite fantastic. 

‘Ultra Azul’ is marked by its emphatic beat line and is contrasted by the dispersing baritones. The shoegaze textures are never far behind in this album. They fog up the mind, casting a strange clarity as you process through it. ‘Beyond the Sight Lines’ also creates horizons. The phantom landscapes that form in your mind start to reveal something in your reality. It has such a contemplative pulse, and gives you that space to spread out into it and discover parts of yourself, of time, of feelings.

‘Kairos’ concludes the album. All the dreamy, surreal moments of the collection culminate here. The twilight frames, blues and purples are all over you, drenching you in its mystery and empathy. As the vocals slowly disappear into the oncoming darkness, the final streak of resonance holds a beautiful luminescence. The glistening piano melodies, the warm bass lines and the bleaching riffs. It all feels transient, like you’re walking through a whole other world on your way back home. Listen Now! 

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The album is available for streaming on popular sites like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music! 

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