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Overabundance

by Red River Dialect

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1.
Front Row 03:54
I had seats in the front row For the Bill Callahan show A hundred odd miles and two hours to go Not gonna make it, traffic real slow Friends are texting hey let’s meet in the bar I’m throwing down my phone in my mother’s car This was meant to be my sweet relief Grinding the gears, grinding my teeth I gave up hope and I just went home Housemates in their rooms, I’m feeling so alone I loaded up on codeine and went for a walk Hackney town hall, frozen 10 o'clock Saw the homeless woman who sits by the shop Ready to say “sorry I’ve not got…” Then she looks up and asks “are you OK?” My body collapsed, my anger blew away I sat on the floor, told her how I was All torn up, because because She said her dog usually hated men And I felt good about that then
2.
That old afternoon song Was always missing the C Raised up by three Or is it one and a half? Oh please don’t laugh I don’t read Music at all I just hear its call On an old afternoon Who is missing the sea And also missing me Because I don’t come to play Or at least not in that way If at all anymore I go to that cupboard I look at a ten year old jar of dried sage And there’s another half full So I combine the two And I throw the old jar away But not the old sage It looks fine and it tastes Like the last meal my father made For me when I stayed With him for three days And oh how we laughed so hard At Allo’ Allo! I said it was like A pantomime And he said “Oh how true!” And we laughed our way through To an old afternoon When I kissed him goodbye He was so sweet and kind Mellow my mind Yellow Yellow hoodie man He was a Goodies fan
3.
Slinky 04:06
instrumental

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*ABOUT THE EP*

The Overabundance EP follows Red River Dialect’s 2019 full-length Abundance Welcoming Ghosts (PoB-046) and includes three studio outtakes from that acclaimed album. The Guardian hailed Abundance Welcoming Ghosts as “alert, anti-colonialist folk” (and their Folk Album of the Month), and Pitchfork praised it as the band’s “most ingenious and immersive mix of folk and rock yet … finding joy in sensory pleasures as well as in the mystical inquests that music allows.” These songs by “the most underrated folk-rock band in Britain” (MOJO) are suffused with longing and raw loss. “Front Row” describes the emotional end of an evening after missing a Bill Callahan show, while “Old Afternoon” recalls a final meal with a father. “Slinky” is a moody instrumental.

Songwriter, singer, and guitarist David Morris writes:

Three songs couldn’t make it to the Abundance Welcoming Ghosts LP and have haunted it these past months. This EP contains perhaps the most intense and most free-flowing Red River Dialect moments, and the album feels somehow incomplete without them. At the same time they stand apart, being the three songs recorded during the album sessions that hark back to older times and well-worn themes.

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released July 3, 2020

Red River Dialect:

Kiran Bhatt: Drums & percussion
Simon Drinkwater: Electric guitars & harmony vocals
Coral Kindred Boothby: Electric bass
David Morris: Vocals & guitars
Ed Sanders: Fiddle
Robin Stratton: Piano & electric keys

All songs written by David Morris
Artwork by Jane Hope

Jimmy Robertson recorded the band at Mwnci Studios between August 27th and 30th 2018, and mixed the songs at SNAFU. Mastered by Patrick Klem in May 2020.

All songs by David Morris, © 2019
℗ & © Paradise of Bachelors 2020 | PoB-059
PO Box 1402, Carrboro, NC 27510, USA
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