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UncutSep 20, 2018Her interest in medieval and early music offers her compositions both a somnolent beauty and a melancholy grasp of simple, slow melody that's refined and tender. ... They're stunning. [Nov 2018, p.27]
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Sep 25, 2018The slow-motion throbs of Davachi's warm, uncluttered electronic pieces achieve something intensely serene. On her new album, Gave In Rest, the music occupies the peaceful spaces she found lying between religious and secular realms.
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MojoOct 3, 2018Gave In Rest is melancholy yet beautiful, slow spectral low-end devotional music: creating a complete world that calls for total immersion. [Nov 2018, p.91]
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Sep 28, 2018We know intellectually it'd be impossible to make this music without modern recording technology, but it's still hard to believe this music came from the mind of someone with a car and a cell phone and a Twitter account. It feels like it's been floating around for eons in one form or another, waiting for someone to bottle it up.
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The WireSep 21, 2018Halfway through its flow, Gave In Rest reveals itself as her first sustained attempt--a successful one--at stranding listeners in a mellow darkness before taking them back outside. [Oct 2018, p.51]
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Sep 20, 2018Unlike much ambient music, Gave in Rest isn’t made for background listening. In fact, only with volume can you fully appreciate the depth of Davachi’s creation.
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Sep 18, 2018This is an album that has developed from careful study of, and attention to, how sacred music could define time and enrapture the spirit in past ages; and how it still offers up its potential to a twenty-first century sensibility when treated with technology and with reverential respect.
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Sep 18, 2018Far from being just a gifted synthesiser experimenter, then, Sarah Davachi is increasingly establishing herself as a multi-faceted explorer of the many liminal terrains of minimalist music. Gave in Rest is a work of disarmingly simple, yet often extremely profound, beauty.
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Sep 18, 2018Gave In Rest isn't just Sarah Davachi's celebration of ritual, it's a temple to her entire practice.
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Sep 18, 2018“Auster” remains, despite the pauses, a minimalist study of harmony and tone color, and the gorgeous “Third Hour” is languid and drifting. But there’s also more motion here than we’ve heard in her work before.
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