Pitchfork

Writing about this song a short while back, Marc Hogan noted that it's "a drug song, and even for a moment a booze song, only it's about, like, details and emotions and stuff, not hyper-intertextual allusion-weaving or raspy humor. (Those two things are awesome, I know.) Backed by a boom-bap beat and laser-guided synth bass, plus some solitary keyboard plinks, Atmosphere's storytelling moves nicely from the bath water dripping 'like a painkiller to the 'goth nail polish' to the pupils like marbles hide behind eyelids.'" Director Zia Sunseri brings the song's story to life in the video by focusing on a hipster lesbian couple who appear to be in serious trouble. (via Subterranean)

[from When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint That Shit Gold; due 04/22/08 on Rhymesayers Entertainment]