Darling the Dawn


"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

  1. "A Sparrows’ Lift" – 3:13
  2. "We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That’s the Sun" – 10:07
  3. "Waiting for the Light to Quit" – 4:46
  4. "A Workers’ Graveyard " – 3:07
  5. "The Sons and Daughters of Poor Eternal" – 9:28
  6. "Anchor" – 7:30
  7. "Lie Down in Roses Dear" – 5:50

    Personnel

All Hands_Make Light
Additional personnel
  • Michele Fiedler Fuentes – artwork
  • Jace Lasek – mixing (recorded music)|mixing]
  • Jessica Moss – violin
  • Harris Newman – mastering
  • Liam O’Neill – drums