"Darling the Dawn" is the debut studio album by Canadian post-rock duo All Hands_Make Light.
Reception A brief review for BrooklynVegan by Andrew Sacher considers this music a mixture of Broken Social Scene and Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Nicholas Sokic rated this release an 8 out of 10 for Exclaim!, writing that "the guitar-free, orchestral shoegaze is propped up by a treasure trove of Montreal's independent music scene". In Uncut, Sharon O'Connell gave Darling the Dawn a 7 out of 10, calling it "luminous" with "soundscapes that shift across drone, ancestral chant, shoegaze and a forlorn take on sacred music, lent extra otherworldly heft by Engle’s beauteous vocals".
The album was longlisted for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize.
Track listing "A Sparrows’ Lift" – 3:13 "We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That’s the Sun" – 10:07 "Waiting for the Light to Quit" – 4:46 "A Workers’ Graveyard (Poor Eternal)" – 3:07 "The Sons and Daughters of Poor Eternal" – 9:28 "Anchor" – 7:30 "Lie Down in Roses Dear" – 5:50
Personnel All Hands_Make Light Ariel Engle – vocals Efrim Manuel Menuck – instrumentation
Additional personnel Michele Fiedler Fuentes – artwork Jace Lasek – mixing Jessica Moss – violin Harris Newman – mastering Liam O’Neill – drums
See also List of 2023 albums
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