Drowse has been played on NTS shows including Emotional Landscapes, with Death Thought first played on 26 March 2018.

1) “Blending slowcore, ambient, and folk with lo-fi musings on memory and entropy, Portland, Oregon musician Kyle Bates joins a grand tradition of Pacific Northwestern gloom.” -Pitchfork

Drowse is the self-recording and songwriting project of Pacific Northwest based multidisciplinary artist Kyle Bates. The project’s prismatic sound reflects slowcore, ambient, folk, experimental electronic, noise-pop, black metal and more through Bates’s distinct song-worlds. Live, these ornate sounds are accompanied by the artist’s “incredibly lush and dreamy” video work. On new album Wane into It, Bates’s songwriting and production have…