A pulse divides the liquid sky
And leaves no sign of how or why
Light unravels the seam
Between silence and dream
The Haunting of Us, the new album from BlakLight, opens like a cold draft slipping beneath a locked door: quiet at first, then undeniable, widening into a presence that settles across the entire room. With their fourth album, the Los Angeles trio turns inward with sharper focus and broader reach, shaping a body of work steeped in emotional erosion, intimate reckoning, and the volatile stillness that forms when desire meets collapse. Their arrangements feel lived-in yet restless, expanding into new spaces while retaining the band’s instinct for tension carried through melody, rhythm, and breath.
A new element here is the imprint of Omar Quiñones, whose arrival thickens the album’s architecture. Synth lines stretch and coil with new precision; rhythmic patterns push with an almost gravitational pull, drawing each song toward a deeper internal pressure. Guitarist Pano Coromelas — whose work lights up “Leave a Light On” and “Suddenly It Falls Apart” — also adds a subtle but essential contour, a kind of emotional filament threading through the machinery.
With The Haunting of Us, BlakLight sounds more deliberate, more carved, as though chiseling their way through obsessions, reconciliations, and the bruised corners of memory.
The album opens with Everything’s Gone Wrong, ushered in by metallic synths that scrape and simmer as if testing the room’s temperature. Percussive cracks follow—sharp, brittle sounds that seem to split along invisible hairline fractures. Then the vocal rises from below: crooned, smoky, distant, as though carried up through the floorboards. Lyrically, the song charts the collapse of self under emotional strain, tracing how intimacy corrodes, how memory blurs, how one can drift into becoming a stranger to their own reflection. A synth-piano melody threads itself through the chorus, lending the unraveling a strange, fragile grace.
Cruel pivots into club territory. Synths churn in slow rotational waves before locking into a tight bassline, and then the beat drops: a clean synthpop stride with hints of futurepop gloss. Impossible not to move to, but beneath the movement lies a story of toxic romance and spectral touch: a lover drifting in and out, cutting close, then vanishing. The chorus embodies that cycle: bright, immediate, and edged with danger. Leave a Light On starts with a low metallic synth pulse before a guitar melody slips into frame, soft but urgent. Horns accent the vocal lines, lending the track a ballroom-like sweep. Its disco pulse carries lyrics about a connection dissolving into numbness, with time accelerating, memories thinning, and the last shred of shared truth reduced to a single light left burning for someone who may never return.
Buried Alive bursts forward with airy choral sighs, quick keys, and buzzing synths. The vocal is resolute but shaken, reflecting the song’s theme: obsession turning into a burial shroud. The lyrics describe a fixation so consuming it becomes its own tomb: love as spell, love as ruin, love as something one cannot escape, no matter the cost. You Will Never Be Alone lowers the temperature with somber piano, drifting synths, and a gentle shuffle of drums. Bell-like tones brighten the corners. The lyrics evoke two people clinging to each other at the precipice, promising refuge even as everything around them cracks. Love becomes both anchor and storm.
The Haunting of Us races forward on rapid arpeggios and icy textures. The vocal trembles with urgency as the song describes a relationship dissolving at cosmic scale: time stalling, bodies thinning into vapour, devotion tested at the edge of collapse. Blind Vision features some of the album’s most unusual synth tones: blooming like dark flowers, rippling, receding. A late-night dance beat forms beneath. The lyrics unravel identity in flux: being seen, then unseen, manipulated, forgotten—yet still searching for renewal.
Judas Kiss leans into retro darkwave: cold, eerie synths and guitar-like accents underscore a narrative of betrayal, old wounds reopened, and questions left to rot in silence. The lyrics return to youthful dreams curdled into disillusionment. Under the Surface blends chiming, guitar-like synths with 90s alt-rock DNA and softer darkwave contours. Here the lyrics confront blame, emotional drift, and the faint threads of shared humanity, even while doubt gnaws at every claim of truth.
Suddenly It Falls Apart closes the album on crystalline bells and drifting tones, a twilight hymn. The lyrics meditate on erasure, transformation, and the certainty of being forgotten: worlds collapsing, identities dissolving, everything replaced by something unrecognizable.
Listen to The Haunting of Us below and order the album here.
The Haunting of Us by BlakLight
The Haunting of Us is BlakLight at their strongest…expansive, deliberate, dwelling in the places where beauty frays into something harder, stranger, and achingly true.
Following the release, BlakLight will take their new material to the stage with performances already confirmed for Dark Force Fest 2026 and Germany’s legendary Wave-Gotik-Treffen, with additional European dates to be announced.
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