After the Night Falls

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After the Night Falls
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Studio album by
Released16 July 2007
Genre Ambient, electronica
Length38:16
Label Darla Records
Producer Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd
Harold Budd chronology
Perhaps
(2007)
After the Night Falls
(2007)
Before the Day Breaks
(2007)
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After The Night Falls is a 2007 collaborative album from Robin Guthrie, formerly of the Cocteau Twins and ambient artist Harold Budd. It was released, as a matched CD, on the same day as Before the Day Breaks , [2] also by Guthrie and Budd.

Track listing

  1. "How Distant Your Heart" – 4:03
  2. "Avenue of Shapes" – 3:27
  3. "Seven Thousand Sunny Years" – 6:19
  4. "She Is My Strength" – 2:52
  5. "Inside, a Golden Echo" – 3:24
  6. "Open Book" – 5:17
  7. "And Then I Turned Away" – 3:30
  8. "The Girl With Colorful Thoughts" – 4:26
  9. "Turn Off the Sun" – 4:58

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