BlakLight – Innocence Lost (EP – BlakLight)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Los Angeles (USA) duo Brian Belknap – Adam Collier aka BlakLight is back on track. After two successful albums they released this EP which features four songs. “Innocence Lost” was originally released at the charity compilation “Wrapped In Plastic”.
Content: We first get the original edit of the title song followed by an extended version. Both edits are into pure melodic Electro-Pop with retro-like elements in it. Both songs left are teasers to an announced, instrumental, album.
+ + + : The title track is a great piece of music featuring a dry kick and snare, cool bleeps, an elevating lead and great vocals. It also confirms the professional production approach of the duo. Both songs left are more than simply B-sides. They’re not entirely instrumentals as the title of the songs have been used as punch lines.
– – – : Electro-Pop fields are definitely endless but I still don’t understand why BlakLight remains under the radar.
Conclusion: A new exposure of a great Electro-Pop formation with its own sound and approach.
Best songs: “Innocence Lost”, “Away From Me”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/BlakLightband
About BlakLight
BlakLight is an American Electro-Pop project from Los Angeles, founded by Brian Belknap and Adam Collier. The duo released a debut album in 2020, followed by the single “Control” in April 2021, the “Control – The Remixes” EP in June 2021, and the album “Into The Void” on October 8, 2021.
The four-track “Innocence Lost” EP followed in early 2023, built around a title track first released on the charity compilation “Wrapped In Plastic”. BlakLight then released the instrumental album “tHE pADDED rOOM” on May 12, 2023.
By 2026, BlakLight had expanded to a trio with the addition of live member Omar Quiñones, releasing a fifth studio album, “The Haunting Of Us”, that year.
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