| The Waking Hour | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Dalis Car |
| Cover: | The Waking Hour album cover.jpg |
| Alt: | A predominately green, yellow, and blue saturated Ancient Greek-style image of a girl lying down smiling and another girl standing above her, naked, looking down at her. Next to them is a column. The leaves of a tree are visible directly behind the column. In the background is a large mountain, separated by the sea. "Dali's Car", with "The Waking Hour" below it in smaller text, are imprinted in fantasy-style purple text in the upper-right corner. |
| Recorded: | 1984 |
| Studio: | The Manor, Air London, and Hernplace Studios |
| Genre: | Gothic rock |
| Label: | Paradox |
| Next Title: | InGladAloneness |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
The Waking Hour is the sole album by English band Dali's Car, a project of Peter Murphy of Bauhaus and Mick Karn of Japan. It was released in November 1984 by record label Paradox, which was created specifically to release the record (it was later reissued on Beggars Banquet).
The album's cover is the painting Daybreak by Maxfield Parrish, which was also utilized by The Moody Blues for the cover of The Present in 1983.
Trouser Press wrote: "As a mellifluous noise, The Waking Hour is fine, if a bit heavy on the bass; dig any deeper, however, and what you get is a hollow attempt to create art without any redeeming artistry."[1]
Fact magazine included it in their list "20 best goth records ever made".[2]