Red River Dialect - Abundance Welcoming Ghosts

The Guardian 80

(Paradise of Bachelors)
Songwriter David Morris brings alternate seduction and disquiet on this worldly album steeped in the British landscape

Over the last 20 years, Cornwall’s Red River Dialect have been twisting together folk-rock, Americana and spiritualism. Ringleader and songwriter David Morris is the son of an Anglican priest, brought up near Tintagel; he’s now an active Buddhist, having recently emerged from a nine-month retreat. His band’s last two albums – 2015’s Tender Gold and Gentle Blue and 2018’s Broken Stay Open Sky – played like moving responses to the sudden death of his father. Their fifth (and second on the lovingly curated North Carolina independent label, Paradise of Bachelors) appears as a wide-eyed, curious creature, willingly alert to the world.

Pitchfork 77

Animated with a new intensity, the Cornwall band’s fifth album may be its most ingenious and immersive mix of folk and rock yet.