Monastic love songs

"David Morris, singer and songwriter in England's Red River Dialect (...) [tracked] the record in one day with Swans' Thor Harris on drums and percussion and Godspeed's Thierry Amar on double bass. The result is sparse and subtle, the album's 10 songs drifting at an unhurried and becalmed pace. Given due attention, these 36 minutes are seductive and deeply involving, hard-hitting in the manner of Nick Drake's Pink Moon or Richard & Linda Thompson's similarly spiritual Pour Down Like Silver".

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"The Red River Dialect frontman explores personal, spiritual, and musical growth after his nine-month retreat at a Nova Scotia Buddhist monastery ... His richly rendered solo debut, Monastic Love Songs, vibrates with the energy and intimacy of his stay at Gampo, and it seems to light a way forward for Morris as a songwriter ... In the final month of his residency, Morris requested a guitar and was granted permission to play it for one hour each day. The musician was becoming one with the monk, and the songs that flowed from that newly unified being reflect that harmony. Monastic Love Songs feels like a reset button for Morris, whose albums with Red River Dialect had increasingly emphasized the rock side of the folk-rock equation over the past decade ... Thor Harris (Swans) and Thierry Amar (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) sat in on drums and bass, and their performances are quietly crucial to the album".