If you expected an album that's deeply meditative in reflecting on the difficulties of the last year, you probably don't know Montgomery Gentry very well.

But his seriousness always comes through; he is a deeply meditative musician.

The recording sessions commenced in 1995, and the deeply meditative Sutras was released late the following year.

Most of the time these days he looked tired or in deeply meditative thought.

He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the human mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily life a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.

Despite this, critics have noted the deeply meditative nature of the work despite the bloody events it depicts and the harshness of existence in twelfth century Orkney.

Even within your own, human race, there are techniques, meditative skills, in which the practitioner can place himself into such a deeply meditative state that his heart slows down to near-undetectability.

'Serious,' Shooter agreed in a deeply meditative tone of voice.

By uttering that sound over and over, one can enter a deeply meditative state.

A review on Drowned in Sound called it "deeply meditative, almost spiritual... one of the most delicate, affecting albums of the year".