Let’s postulate the following: Ariel Engle (La Force) has one of the most beautiful voices on the Montreal music scene. This again jumps to the ears on Darling the Dawn, the magnificent first album of the new avant-pop-shoegaze-ambient project created in duet with none other than Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion). With the collaboration of violinist Jessica Moss and drummer Liam O’Neill (SUUNS), ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT offers an album of powerful contrasts, between the voices of Ariel and Efrim first, then between the softness of the melodies and harmonies and the thundering orchestral charge that stirs them, as evidenced by the gripping ten minutes of We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That’s the Sun. The notion of the “dawn” of our civilization is the engine of the project, but the hope nevertheless pierces the musical apocalypse, like a clearing between two storms, as well as, summarizes Efrim, “the work that we all do to try to build a house under an endless flood”.
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