Long Beach, California’s purveyors of lushly layered songs are back with an extended player featuring 6 brand new songs. Limited edition ocean-blue vinyl available via Highlands’ Bandcamp page.

From the outset of recording “Sparse Illumination”, Blackout Transmission lead songwriter/arranger, C. Goett, envisioned calling upon musical comrades to reimagine these tracks through remixes and alternate interpretations. By activating the national Etxe Records community and local Los Angeles network, “Radiance + Variance: Remixes and Alternate Interpretations” advances new experimental and more electronic approaches to the original songs tracked with Scott Holmes (Highlands, Dream Machine LB).

Available exclusively on Bandcamp.

“We welcome Blackout Transmission onto our radar. . . one of the finest bands to come out of Los Angeles, California recently; a quartet that rocks between alternative rock and shoegaze.

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.”

Last month, New Noise Magazine premiered Sparse Illumination, the debut LP from L.A.-based post-punk outfit Blackout Transmission. Collectively, the eight tracks on the album, out now through Etxe Records, combine for a tight 34-minute dose of post-punk, shoegaze, and neo-psychedelia that evokes low-shutter-speed nocturnal journeys through desert canyons and winding coastal highways