This loss permeates the music, gracing it with a tragic mystery.ĪLL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT‘s “ Darling the Dawn” combines the talents of Ariel Engle (Broken Social Scene) and Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Bipolar Explorer‘s In the Hours Left Before Dawn is a sprawling suite that contains instrumentals, sung and spoken word, much of the singing recorded prior to the premature death of Summer Serafin. This is the case with two of spring’s most ambitious sets.

Our cover image is taken from Lost Tribe Sound’s Therianthrope Series, a four-disc boxed set from Arrowounds, covered below!įrequent readers of our site are aware of our unusual relationship with vocals we prefer the instrumental, but sometimes allow an album with vocals to slip in, especially if the vocals are themselves experimental, are used as texture, alternate with instrumental tracks and/or yield longer passages of lyric-free music. We also want to tip our readers to our next big series, which will highlight music that sounds like spring look for our list of the all-time Best Spring Albums, coming this April! In the meantime, we hope you enjoy our final installment of 2023’s Spring Music Preview.

Next week, we’ll take a deep dive into the spring slate and start to cover some of these prime releases in greater depth. This is just one of dozens of releases in our most expansive category, running the tonal gamut from reflective to rocking. The Arrowounds album pictured here boasts some incredible artwork read below to discover how to turn the digital image into a physical artifact.

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