ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT – Darling The Dawn [LP]

Description

ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT is the recently minted duo of Ariel Engle (La Force, PatrickWatson, Broken Social Scene) and Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! BlackEmperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion). Longtime friends, collaborators, and stalwarts of theMontral post-punk community, this is their first full-fledged project together. AH_MLweaves these two unique voices through lustrous tendrils of blown-out tones anddrones, expanding on Menucks eponymous modular and analog synth-based work ofrecent years, now imbued with an additionally searing, soulful warmth and melodicismthrough Engles singing.Darling The Dawnis a spellbinding album of preternaturallygenre-bending sonics and songwriting: a sort of electronic shoegaze suffused withfreak-folk, kosmische, darkwave and post-industrial, flowing from ambient minimalismto pulsing maximalism, conjuring traditionals sung in the haze of earliest lightaccompanied by overdriven circuit boards powered with ungrounded wires.

Tracklist:

1. A Sparrows’ Lift
2. We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That’s the Sun
3. Waiting for the Light to Quit
4. A Workers’ Graveyard (Poor Eternal)
5. The Sons and Daughters of Poor Eternal
6. Anchor
7. Lie Down in Roses Dear

UPC: 666561017118
Label: Constellation
Release Date: 4.21.23
Format: Vinyl