Rock/Review Blackout Transmission - Twilight & Resonance

Blackout Transmission is a band formed in Los Angeles, CA, now residing in the Mountain West of the United States, that composes and plays neo-psychedelic rock music with UK shoegaze and darkwave influences.

With “Twilight & Resonance,” Blackout Transmission deliver an album that feels like a geological shift — one that trades the static hum of city life for the vast hush of the Mountain West. Across eight tracks, the band captures the spiritual disorientation of leaving behind concrete and neon in favor of open skies, long horizons, and the quiet that forces you to confront yourself.

The record retains the shimmering, psychedelic post-punk DNA that longtime listeners have come to expect, but there is something deeper at work here — a widening of scope. Guitars stretch outward like desert highways, reverb becomes atmosphere itself, and the rhythm section pulses with a heartbeat that feels both human and elemental. This is music that breathes the dust of high plains and glows with the final ember of twilight.

The album presents itself as a continuous experience — 34 minutes that aren’t meant to be broken or shuffled. Textural details emerge more vividly with each listen: ghostly harmonics that appear like mirages, basslines that rumble like distant thunder, synth ripples suggesting starlight over silent mesas. Lyrically, it’s introspective yet expansive, exploring the tension between escape and belonging, movement and stillness.

The dark purple vinyl edition — featuring Jeff Holmes’ meticulous design and Jonathan Keeton’s evocative artwork — provides a perfect physical counterpart to the sound world Blackout Transmission construct here.

“Twilight & Resonance” is a landmark moment for the band: an album that invites listeners to step into the desert night and let the echoes guide them home.