Darling the Dawn explained

"Darling the Dawn"
Type:	studio
Artist:	All Hands_Make Light
Cover:	All Hands_Make Light - Darling the Dawn.jpg
Alt:	A simple drawing of a colorful sun above a few figures walking along the bottom of the album cover
Recorded:	2022
Studio:	Thee Might Hotel2Tango, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Language:	English
Label:	Constellation
Prev Title:	All Hands_Make Light
Prev Year:	2021

"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 (Poor Eternal)" – 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

• 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