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- ↑ "ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT". Le Canal Auditif (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ↑ Nicholas Sokic, "ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT are Time Travellers on 'Darling the Dawn'". Exclaim! , April 20, 2023.
- ↑ "ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT annonce la sortie d'un nouvel album : Darling the Dawn". Le Canal Auditif (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ↑ "2023 Polaris Music Prize long list: Feist, Jessie Reyez and more". CBC Music, June 13, 2023.
