Immersive melancholy contemplates the impact of long term anti-depression use. Guitarist and composer TGSM creates an evocative, atmospheric indie rock piece, for Escitalopram.
Featuring an ambient balance of pulsating, rhythmic chords, a mellow groove, and a raw indie rock and shoegaze kind of hazy rise and fall, Escitalopram is an instrumental guitar track that utilises a handful of different waves of musical movement to recapture the essence of anti-depressive numbness; or the ebb and flow of recovery and struggle.
We’re softly pulled back and forth between brightness and sadness, but it’s subtle and nuanced – an easy sway of a pattern, with that nostalgic indie-grunge and shoegaze overtone to really set up a kind of outside-the-walls-of-the-rock-show vibe. There’s a unique bassline that’s slightly longer form, a difference in tone and effects between layers, and a certain emotional poignancy to the introduction of the drumline and these brighter strums of the guitar; all of which helps emulate the direct experiences of TGSM.
Storytelling through instrumentation, through pattern and design, through feeling, is powerful when it’s as authentic as this. You can hear the live hum of the guitar’s amplification through the system, and the muggy finish on the quieter moments halfway through, when things get rather dark and eerie, but always there’s this sense of stillness – almost as if the world is flying by at speed, while we sit completely motionless and disconnected from it all.
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