RÜFÜS DU SOL Embrace the Tension of Reincarnation in New Album, &quot, Inhale / Exhale&quot,

RÜFÜS DU SOL’s new song, Inhale / Exhale, feels like a sound landscape as large and uncertain as the life that shaped it.

The band’s second album sees them furthering their mental core while pursuing the potential of what their music can become. The pair, who were now stranded between the beautiful beaches of San Diego and Miami, made the decision to repair after the pandemic’s dust settled.

And in doing so, they found artistic freedom like never before, leading to the great storm of atmospheric music. Inhale / Exhale is a rush of noise that shifts from whispers to roaring arpeggios, similar to the release of a long-held breath.

Opening with” Inhale” and” Lately”, they waste no time pulling you under. The songs pound out loud with opulent synths like they’ve filtered their sound through a lens. They delve deeply into well-known country, using both love as a means of forgiveness and destruction as metaphors.

The album’s personal paradox runs through everything, but it never seems to be more obvious than in” Pressure.” The group adds layers of twisted synths and rough drumming to create a slow-building emotion, building anxiety like a ticking time bomb. The music is mechanical, but in that caution lies its talent. Frightened to confront the pounds of separation, it’s a monitor that mirrors the band’s personal serpentine journey to impact.

But even as they push deeper into these thematic territories, RÜFÜS have n’t lost their gift for crafting festival anthems, either. ” Music Is Better” stations pure, hands-in-the-air joy, built on a basis of beautiful synth layers and encouraging percussion. It’s a celebration of the kind of relationship that lingers in the shadows of unending sunsets and gloomy summer nights, but beneath that surface-level pleasure lies a deeper mirror on the power of songs to unite and heal—an implicit theme that permeates the entire project.

Somewhere, there’s events in Inhale / Exhale, like in “Edge of the Earth”, where you can nearly feel the weight of the singer’s physical separation. But instead of dislocation, it’s given the song a sense of immensity. The infinite flights and temporary producers in Ibiza, Austin, and LA where the song was born exhibit a certain kind of anxiety. In these distributed moments, the team managed to reconnect—not only with each other, but with the raw sense of creativity that’s constantly defined their songs.

As the song comes to an end with” Exhale,” it seems like the entire journey has come to an end, marking a moment of quiet mirror while reminding us that even in the most violent storms, there is still still serenity to follow.

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