Before the Day Breaks

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Before the Day Breaks
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Studio album by
Released16 July 2007
Genre Ambient, electronica
Length43:12
Label Darla Records
Producer Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd
Harold Budd chronology
After the Night Falls
(2007)
Before the Day Breaks
(2007)
A Song for Lost Blossoms
(2008)
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Before the Day Breaks 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 After the Night Falls , [2] also by Guthrie and Budd.

In December 2007, American webzine Somewhere Cold ranked Before the Day Breaks No. 6 on their 2007 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame. [3]

Track listing

  1. "How Close Your Soul" – 7:46
  2. "Formless Path" – 4:23
  3. "Minute a Day No More" – 5:21
  4. "She Is My Weakness" – 3:41
  5. "Outside Silence" – 4:25
  6. "Hidden Message" – 4:48
  7. "I Returned Her Glance" – 3:43
  8. "My Monochrome Vision" – 4:44
  9. "Turn On the Moon" – 4:21

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References

  1. Before the Day Breaks at AllMusic
  2. amazon.com Amazon - Before the Day Breaks
  3. Lamoreaux, Jason T. (30 December 2007). "2007 Somewhere Cold Awards". Somewhere Cold . Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2020.