The Golden Morning Breaks

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The Golden Morning Breaks
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 23, 2005
Genre Ambient
Length49:05
Label The Leaf Label BAY48
Colleen chronology
Everyone Alive Wants Answers
(2003)
The Golden Morning Breaks
(2005)
Mort Aux Vaches
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork Media (8.0/10) [2]

The Golden Morning Breaks is an album by Colleen, released in 2005. It takes on a more natural and less synthetic sound than its predecessor, 2003's Everyone Alive Wants Answers , which was almost entirely sampled. The cover art is by Iker Spozio.

Contents

A video was made by Jon Nordstrom for the song "I'll Read You a Story".

Track listing

  1. "Summer Water" – 3:39
  2. "Floating in the Clearest Night" – 2:36
  3. "The Heart Harmonicon" – 3:53
  4. "Sweet Rolling" – 4:04
  5. "The Happy Sea" – 3:00
  6. "I'll Read You a Story" – 6:51
  7. "Bubbles Which on the Water Swim" – 3:11
  8. "Mining in the Rain" – 3:11
  9. "The Golden Morning Breaks" – 5:22
  10. "Everything Lay Still" – 13:18

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References

  1. Tilland, William. The Golden Morning Breaks at AllMusic. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
  2. Abebe, Nitsuh (August 4, 2005). "Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved May 23, 2012.