Ariel Engle and Efrim Manuel Menuck have joined forces as ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT, announcing their debut album Darling the Dawn and sharing 10-minute first single "We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That's the Sun."
"'We live on a fucking planet and baby that's the sun' is a lyric that's been floating around in my head for a couple decades," Engle explained in a statement. "I lived in an apartment once with floor-to-ceiling sliding doors by my bed. One morning I woke at dawn, sat up like a bolt, and heard myself say those words. I could see the halo of orange pink light cut into the last of the night. The lyric is about the uncanniness of living on a sphere. The smallness of us in contrast to the size and motion of planets and the comfort of the eternal return of dawn and sun after the night."
The first official collaborative project between Engle (of La Force, AroarA and Broken Social Scene) and Menuck (of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion), ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT mixes Menuck's modular and analog synth work with Engle's robust, melodicism and warmth.
"These times are in-between times," Menuck said of what inspired the project. "The old things are sinking with their hands around our throat," he continued, writing that the record started "with an idea of making a long thing about 'THE DAWN,' the different weights of its radiance, the way it kisses our dumb faces when we rise and leave the night behind, the heaviness of that light when you haven't slept."
Check out the epic "We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That's the Sun" and see the Darling the Dawn tracklist below.
Darling the Dawn:
1. A Sparrow's Lift
2. We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That's the Sun
3. Waiting for the Light to Quit
4. A Worker's Graveyard (Poor Eternal)
5. The Sons and Daughters of Poor Eternal
6. Anchor
7. Lie Down in Roses Dear
Pre-order "Darling the Dawn."
"'We live on a fucking planet and baby that's the sun' is a lyric that's been floating around in my head for a couple decades," Engle explained in a statement. "I lived in an apartment once with floor-to-ceiling sliding doors by my bed. One morning I woke at dawn, sat up like a bolt, and heard myself say those words. I could see the halo of orange pink light cut into the last of the night. The lyric is about the uncanniness of living on a sphere. The smallness of us in contrast to the size and motion of planets and the comfort of the eternal return of dawn and sun after the night."
The first official collaborative project between Engle (of La Force, AroarA and Broken Social Scene) and Menuck (of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion), ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT mixes Menuck's modular and analog synth work with Engle's robust, melodicism and warmth.
"These times are in-between times," Menuck said of what inspired the project. "The old things are sinking with their hands around our throat," he continued, writing that the record started "with an idea of making a long thing about 'THE DAWN,' the different weights of its radiance, the way it kisses our dumb faces when we rise and leave the night behind, the heaviness of that light when you haven't slept."
Check out the epic "We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That's the Sun" and see the Darling the Dawn tracklist below.
Darling the Dawn:
1. A Sparrow's Lift
2. We Live on a Fucking Planet and Baby That's the Sun
3. Waiting for the Light to Quit
4. A Worker's Graveyard (Poor Eternal)
5. The Sons and Daughters of Poor Eternal
6. Anchor
7. Lie Down in Roses Dear
Pre-order "Darling the Dawn."
