Some of Us Stay, Some of Us Go by Atomiste

For fans of Duster, Have a Nice Life, Cindy Lee, early post rock, and the willingness to grapple with and make sense of the deepest, darkest feelings of depression, Some of Us Stay, Some of Us Go by Atomiste takes an instrumental slowcore approach to describe an urgently dangerous mental health crisis. Despite the drama of such a situation, each individual moment on the record feels subdued and melancholic, much more passive than active as each song draws out into these gradual, minimalist structures which place us in an aesthetically liminal space. That liminal space stands between a vastly diminished quality of life and the eternal, unknowable end, an artistic manifestation of the one transition which gives all other liminality its horrifying qualities. However, even in this desperation, even teetering on this threshold between life and death, this album comes equipped with a staggering display of beauty. By making art, we unlock that beauty and fill the empty shell of our depression with genuine, compelling meaning, sending a revolutionary message back to a misanthropic world as we dare to continue.