Classtronaut offers a personal and evocative new EP, Songs From Hospital Rooms. In only three tracks and 13 minutes, the band distills a time of personal struggle into a potent, synth-kissed soundscape that mingles fragility with hope.
Classtronaut’s founding member Brian wrote the songs whenever his son was in the hospital overnight, sitting next to his child’s bed listening to the “whir” of heart monitors and oxygen machines. This captures sleepless nights and showcases the cathartic creation that music can bring during dark days. The song “Nightshift” is the EP’s emotional anchor, encapsulating that haunting insomnia — surreal, quiet moments laced with Gus’s tearing lyrics. It’s a song that strikes deep, that feeling of almost drifting through time slowly but also finding solace in the most muted of moments.
Another highlight, “Some Other People,” balances the inward and outward but presents a different take on personal struggle. Absorbing as it is, with its lush synths and enveloping sound, it’s an anthem of emotional release, allowing the listener to float into a reality in which the hurt seems far away.
“Orbit” completes the EP with a rush of effervescent uncertainty, its propulsive beats launching us into a realm of reflective optimism. With Songs From Hospital Rooms, Classtronaut has managed to weave together a hauntingly beautiful, deeply intimate, and remarkably universal narrative.
Classtronaut, who’d previously established themselves as a band to watch throughout the Northwest indie expanse with their electric live performances, further cemented their place as artists to watch. They have taken the raw pain they have felt and turned it into this sonic healing journey, and I feel like we all need a little bit of that right now.
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