Darkness at Noon (A Hawk and a Hacksaw album)

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Darkness at Noon
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ReleasedApril 5, 2005
Genre Pop rock
Label The Leaf Label
A Hawk and a Hacksaw chronology
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
(2002)
Darkness at Noon
(2005)
The Way the Wind Blows
(2006)
Professional ratings
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Metacritic 73/100 [1]
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Pitchfork Media (7.3/10) [3]

Darkness at Noon is the second studio album by A Hawk and a Hacksaw, released in 2005 on The Leaf Label.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks by Jeremy Barnes

  1. "Laughter in the Dark" – 7:55
  2. "The Moon Under Water" – 3:59
  3. "The Water Under the Moon" – 3:52
  4. "A Black and White Rainbow" – 4:49
  5. "For Slavoj" – 4:58
  6. "Europa" – 3:50
  7. "Pastelka On the Train" – 3:13
  8. "Goodbye Great Britain" – 1:34
  9. "Our Lady of the Vlatva" – 1:36
  10. "Wicky Pocky" – 5:08
  11. "Portland Town" – 5:16

Personnel

[4]

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References

  1. "Album Review". Metacritic . Retrieved May 26, 2012.
  2. Darkness at Noon at AllMusic
  3. Murphy, Matthew (April 26, 2005). "Pitchfork Media review". Archived from the original on April 18, 2008. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
  4. "A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Darkness at Noon (2005, CD)". Discogs .