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 (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