Abundance welcoming ghosts

"Abundance Welcoming Ghosts may be the band's most ingenious and immersive mix of folk and rock yet, but it's also Morris' most compelling set of songs. He invests small sensations with outsize power, finding joy in sensory pleasures as well as in the mystical inquests that music allows. "Oh, a piano," he sings on "Piano." "Open the lid, play a single note, and look out through a new window." Even as the record is steeped in the long history of British folk music, that balance of the tactile and the spiritual anchors these songs in the present moment".

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"Although written prior to the nine-month Buddhist meditation retreat that he underwent shortly after these recordings took place, Morris' search for a quieter mind is already apparent on the gently paced "Slow Rush." Neither as endearingly fragile nor as transcendently healing as his previous two volumes, Abundance is nonetheless a fulfilling and soulful work, worthy of the Red River Dialect canon".

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"Although it sounds and feels transatlantic, British inspirations flood this record, from its Mabinogion-referencing artwork to its recording in rural Carmarthenshire. A meditation on Wales' highest peak, Snowdon, is momentous, if a shade over-earnest, Joan Shelley's backing vocals giving welcome lightness (her recent album Like the River Loves the Sea is a slow-burning beauty). Two White Carp also feels thick with the mud of a familiar river, but the spaciousness in the arrangements of Piano and Blue Sparks, allowing in silence like Talk Talk did in their later songs, lets the spirituality of the songs filter in".

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