Darling the Dawn

"Darling the Dawn"
"Darling the Dawn"
Studio album by All Hands_Make Light
Released	April 21, 2023
Recorded	2022
Studio	Thee Might Hotel2Tango, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genre	Post-rock; shoegaze;
Length	44:00
Language	English
Label	Constellation
All Hands_Make Light chronology

"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.^[1] 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".^[2] 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".^[3]

The album was longlisted for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize.^[4]

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

References

^ ^a ^b Sacher, Andrew (April 21, 2023). "Album Reviews: redveil, Esther Rose, superviolet, Alfa Mist, more". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Sokic, Nicholas. "ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT are Time Travellers on 'Darling the Dawn'". Reviews. Exclaim!. ISSN 1207-6600.
^ O'Connell, Sharon (June 2023). "New Albums". Uncut. p. 23. ISSN 1368-0722.
^ Minsker, Evan (June 13, 2023). "Polaris Prize 2023 Long List: Alvvays, Feist, U.S. Girls, Andy Shauf, and More". News. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved July 10, 2023.

External links

Darling the Dawn at Discogs (list of releases)
Darling the Dawn at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

[bv-1] Sacher, Andrew (April 21, 2023). "Album Reviews: redveil, Esther Rose, superviolet, Alfa Mist, more". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved July 10, 2023.

[e!-2] Sokic, Nicholas. "ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT are Time Travellers on 'Darling the Dawn'". Reviews. Exclaim!. ISSN 1207-6600.

[uncut-3] O'Connell, Sharon (June 2023). "New Albums". Uncut. p. 23. ISSN 1368-0722.

[pm-4] Minsker, Evan (June 13, 2023). "Polaris Prize 2023 Long List: Alvvays, Feist, U.S. Girls, Andy Shauf, and More". News. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved July 10, 2023.

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