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- Artist(s): Noah Georgeson
- Summary: The ambient release from Devendra Banhart and Noah Georgeson features contributions from Tyler Cash, Todd Dahlhoff, Jeremy Harris, Mary Lattimore, Nicole Lawrence, and David Ralicke.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans
- Genre(s): Electronic, Ambient, Alternative/Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Electronic, Indie Folk
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Aug 18, 2021Refuge sounds composed, thoughtful, and intimate, with reflections on pain, grief, acceptance, and relief coming through in the character of the album's varied atmospheres.
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Aug 18, 2021The result leaves the listener the way the best ambient music does, comforted, beguiled, and refreshed, and when the disembodied voice finally chimes in on “Sky Burial” it’s just enough to pull the listener in for the final stretch.
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Aug 18, 2021Refuge clocks in at over an hour, an hour in which, as stated earlier, not a whole lot of stuff happens. And yet maybe it takes that long to clear out the buzz and chatter, to slow down, to focus on one sound at a time and to find a stillness. It’s too long, it’s too slow, it’s too eventless until it’s not, and then you’re there.
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Aug 18, 2021Though the album is staid and formulaic by design, it doesn’t always color inside the lines: It feels more like background music failing up than ambient music failing down.
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UncutSep 23, 2021Their shimmering, somnolent ambience is irrefutably palliative. [Oct 2021, p.25]