[11] Directly after the release Bates became an artist in residence in Skagaströnd, Iceland, resulting in new work including Fog Storm pts.

[13] Later that year Drowse released the mini-LP, Second Self, in collaboration with Lane Shi Otayonii (Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Otay:onii) as an exclusive work for The Flenser's label subscription series.

[17] In July 2021 the project released Room Impression as part of Glowing Window Recordings' Cold Fronts, a cohesive album length collection of works by Drowse, Planning for Burial, Jonathan Tuite (The Flenser), and Bryan Manning (Bosse-de-Nage).

[21] Pitchfork summed up the project's sound as "blending slowcore, ambient, and folk with lo-fi musings on memory and entropy, [part of] a grand tradition of Pacific Northwestern gloom.

"[25] Cris Lankenau, writing for Willamette Week, compared Drowse to other Pacific Northwest musical acts Mount Eerie and Grouper.

[26] Lars Gotrich from NPR reinforced the comparison, saying "Drowse [...] sounds like an intimate Mount Eerie home recording overdubbed with a worn-out cassette of The Cure's Disintegration.