Bandcamp There’s a bleak little irony in calling a record We’re All Going To Be Fine and then putting a woman’s face behind shattered glass on the cover. Lost in Kyiv, from Paris, deal in that kind of tension: instrumental post-metal built on the swing between reassurance and dread, synths woven all the way through, and titles, “Enlightened,” “Euphoria,” “Liminality,” that map a journey of emotional states rather than a story. This is their Pelagic Records debut, and it arrives with the widescreen polish that label tends to demand.
The production is the most accomplished of anything in this week’s batch, and when it’s on, it’s genuinely cinematic. “Burst” is the clearest win, its fuzzed guitars panned wide to leave room for a prominent, growling bass that keeps every chord change readable, the master loud but never overrun. “Becoming” opens a wide stereo stage with a controlled sub-bass and a crisp, punchy kick, and “Euphoria” is the cleanest of all, balanced and deep with real dynamic headroom left for its transient peaks. When Lost in Kyiv trust the space in their arrangements, the electronic textures and the heaviness genuinely lift each other.
The record stumbles when it goes all-in on density. “Mantra” pushes its saturated guitars and a wobbling, over-distorted bass into a single wall where individual notes stop registering, and the loudest passages of “Eclipse” and “Liminality” clamp down hard enough to flatten the drums’ transients just as the songs peak. The opener “Enlightened” already hints at the issue, its low mids overlapping and its snare crushed under the loudness. These are the moments where the polish tips into brute force, and the catharsis the band build toward lands with less impact than it should.
We’re All Going To Be Fine is a polished, atmospheric, genuinely cinematic instrumental post-metal record from a band with a real feel for the crescendo and the electronic undertow beneath it, held just short of the top tier by a handful of over-compressed peaks. When it breathes, as on “Burst” and “Becoming,” it’s the widescreen post-metal Pelagic built its name on. A strong, absorbing listen, and a debut that suggests even better once these Parisians learn to trust the quiet as much as the loud.
Instrumental post-metal with synths woven throughout, built on the swing between ambient calm and fuzzed catharsis. The production is the most accomplished of the batch and genuinely cinematic when it’s on: “Burst” pans its fuzzed guitars wide to leave room for a prominent growling bass that keeps chord changes readable, “Becoming” opens a wide stereo stage with controlled sub-bass and a crisp punchy kick, and “Euphoria” is the cleanest, balanced and deep with real dynamic headroom. It stumbles when it goes all-in on density: “Mantra” pushes saturated guitars and an over-distorted bass into a single wall where notes stop registering, and the loudest passages of “Eclipse” and “Liminality” clamp down hard enough to flatten the drums’ transients at the peaks, while the opener “Enlightened” overlaps its low mids and crushes the snare. Polished, atmospheric and widescreen, held short of the top tier by a handful of over-compressed peaks.
Standout tracks: Burst, Becoming, Euphoria
