Take Refuge in Clean Living
by Grails
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 May 2008
- Label: Important
- Country: United States
- Length: 32:31
- Community rating: 3.85/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Kate O'Brien-Clarke, baglama, Cory Gray, William Slater, Alex Hall, Emil Amos
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Released as a brief, intensely atmospheric companion piece to 'Doomsdayer's Holiday', this EP leans heavily into the band's psychedelic and Eastern-folk influences. The instrumental tracks prioritize slow-building, cinematic tension utilizing acoustic guitars, obscure percussion, and swirling effects. It perfectly distills the Portland group's uniquely ominous, genre-blurring interpretation of post-rock.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, swirling, spacious, guitar-driven, sprawling
Tracklist
- Stoned at the Taj Again (7:34)
- PTSD (6:51)
- 11th Hour (4:08)
- Take Refuge (8:06)
- Clean Living (5:50)
Credits
- Grails - primary artist
- William Slater - bass, organ, harpsichord, vocals [vocal], harmonium, guitar [gtr]
- Ben Nugent - drums [with]
- Zak Riles - guitar [gtr's], baglama [saz], pedal steel guitar [pedal steel], noises [feedback washes]
- Cory Gray - horns
- Jeff Stuart Saltzman - post production [post-production]
- Kate O'Brien-Clarke - strings
- The Ventures - written-by