Blackwater Holylight: Not Here Not Gone

Blackwater Holylight: 'Not Here Not Gone' Album Review

Blackwater Holylight embrace contrast on Not Here Not Gone Blackwater Holylight image via Magdalena Wosinska January 30, 2026 Blackwater Holylight, the LA via Portland, Oregon shoegaze ethereal doom project, returns with their fourth full-length album Not Here Not Gone, released January 30, 2026, via Suicide Squeeze Records. Recorded at Sonic Ranch outside of El Paso, […] The post Blackwater Holylight – ‘Not Here Not Gone’ appeared first on The …

Album of the month: Blackwater Holylight release doomgaze album Not Here Not Gone

The first LOUD WOMEN album of the month for 2026 is from LA-based trio Blackwater Holylight and their latest album, Not Here Not Gone.  Vocalist and guitarist/bassist Sunny Faris, guitarist Mikayla Mayhew, and drummer Eliese Dorsay moved from their hometown of Portland, Oregon three years ago. Leaving behind the gloom of Portland skies, along with familiar friendships, routines, and routes, they traded it for the warmth of Los Angeles and a fre…

BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT - Introducing Not Here Not Gone

Today marks the release of Not Here Not Gone, the fourth album of the shoegaze, heavy rock band Blackwater Holylight via Suicide Squeeze. Read HadrianuS's review in our site.

Blackwater Holylight: Not Here Not Gone

It will pain any Portlander to hear it, but moving to sunny Southern California seems to have been good for Blackwater Holylight. The band, who once called the Rose City home, always felt like a reflection of the Northwest’s atmosphere: they’re noisy, they’re gloomy, they’re beautiful, and they feel like a force of nature more often than not. The rain and the grey that finds its dominion in Oregon from mid-October through mid-April can be oppres…