Rush to Relax brings the warmth and intimacy of home-recorded music, standing with a firm DIY mindset and under heavy influence of the global rock'n'roll heritage. Although named after ECSR's last album, the expression has more in common with present-day solo projects like Itchy Bugger, Escape-ism or Vasko Atanasoski. The project's debut cassette was released in September 2019 by Ljubljana's very own Look Back And Laugh label, followed by a few regional tours and a new album on the way for 2022. In between, Rush to Relax has transformed into a strong quartet featuring some of the busiest independent musicians in Ljubljana. And the live performance??? Stripped-down and energetic, with the sincerity of an open heart. Free up your calendar and come to the show! There's no point if you only rush to relax.

“Damjan Manevski is responsible for this brilliant slice of DIY jangle that manages to cavort just around the fringes of ‘proper weird’, without ever really threatening to cross such potentially dismissive boundaries. Effectively the release is something of a smorgasbord of the best of unconventional jangle.”
- Jangle Pop Hub

“V primerjavi s številnimi zasedbami, ki s svojimi prvimi izdajami običajno še iščejo svoj zvok in nam ponudijo predvsem mešanice v iskanju tega, se Rush to Relax ponaša s koherentno, distinktivno in izpiljeno podobo, tako v zvočnem kot tudi idejnem smislu. Plošča namreč v nobenem smislu ne deluje kot debitantska ali amaterska, pač pa kot precizen izdelek izkušenega glasbenika, ki ve, kaj dela.”
- Radio Študent

RtR izoštrava sećanje na naše najparamelodičnije snove ... Neopterećen otkrivanjem novih soničnih dimenzija i kolornim filovanjima tamnih opsega na spektrogramu, Makedonac u Ljubljani nema ništa zajedničko s Englezom u Njujorku. Usesređen na pesmu i potez na kojem je za svoju dušu rastavlja i ponovo sastavlja, "Rush to Relax" ne luta, koliko god se činilo da zvuk ovde nema stalnu adresu. Jer i nema. Stvaran je u različitim delovima autorove sobe.
- Super mesto bez šećera