Red River Dialect‘s Broken Stay Open Sky is out today! Order from PoB or find these February fruits wherever fine music is sold, downloaded, or streamed.
Broken Stay Open Sky is the fourth full-length album by Red River Dialect, and their first for Paradise of Bachelors. The London-based band (with Cornish roots) brings a windswept energy and daylight to a contemplative, gorgeously rendered suite of songs about inhabiting the landscape, and our bodies, in joy and pain alike. Informed by songwriter David Morris’s spiritual practice, and recorded largely live in the studio, this is the band’s most ambitious and emotionally affecting work to date: atmospheric but deeply rooted, equally concerned with investigating the concrete and the cosmic, both quiet details of the everyday and looming matters of faith.
You can read David’s moving testimony about how these recordings came to be, and what a “broken stay” is, here. And you can read more about the band here.
Following a full-page feature review and interview in Uncut and rave review from MOJO, the band is currently on tour in the UK with The Weather Station.
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There’s always a hint of sorrow to Red River Dialect, a feeling of unworthiness in the face of beauty. [The] first single already feels like a burden lifted. “Kukkuripa” radiates a beaming light. The band stretches out a rhapsodic melody like a ribbon chasing the wind, the fabric undulating over a thumping drone of violin and low-lying guitars.
– Lars Gotrich, NPR Music
8/10. Gentle, thoughtful compositions that mix straightforward observation with naturalistic imagery and philosophical inquiry.
– Uncut
Frenzied and fantastic… a radical, thundering realm. Alternates white noise with sweet, intricate harmonies, and an unrelenting pressure between the two. Songwriter David Morris credits his spiritual practice as the inspiration for these sweeping, massive songs that incorporate old world folk and the tension of noise and drone music with equal force.
– Uproxx
4 stars. Red River Dialect’s tempo is beatific, fingerpicked guitar and violin cresting sweetly, though some fervent moments provide real highlights: Morris’s earnest tones crack with loss on Aery Thin, while the clipped vocals and febrile undertow make Gull Rock thrillingly combustible, and hopefully an indication of Red River Dialect’s future.
– Laura Snapes, MOJO
8/10. A beguilingly atmospheric record… imagine Steve Gunn transplanted to Kernow and you’d be close.
– Clash Music
An album of breathtakingly rare beauty. A classic in every sense.
– Martyn Coppack, Echoes and Dust
Brimming with glorious dizzying energy and tension, primitive and cut loose from modern constraints. Impossible to resist.
– Folk Radio UK
Photo by Hannah Rose Whittle.