Solace

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Creatively, RÜFÜS DU SOL has a tendency towards globe-trotting. The Sydney trio tends to chase the artistic imprint of landscapes and senses of place, literally and figuratively letting their surroundings surround their music. 2016’s <i>Bloom</i> was recorded in Berlin and absorbed the city’s cold-morning minimalism. Inspired by the desolate warmth of Death Valley and Joshua Tree, they decamped to the deserts of Venice, California for 2018’s <i>Solace</i>. They were not alone in this endeavor. A local shaman was enlisted to help them focus the record’s broader, contrasting themes of anguish and celebration with an elaborate studio vibe check. RÜFÜS DU SOL’s method recording lends <i>Solace</i> the intimate yet faraway quality suggested by its emotional depths and the setting they were unearthed in. Balanced by impossibilitie, sometimes it is about yearning for an oasis while drowning (“Underwater”). Sometimes it is about craving the haze of change that shimmers over perilous dunes (“New Sky”). At all time, it is far more organic than anything the band explored prior despite being, absolutely, an electronic dance album—even though, at one point, coconuts were ripped apart and sampled. .

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