Album Review: Day Before Us – Dim Shores Of Eternity
Artist: Day Before Us
Title: Dim Shores Of Eternity
Label: Les Nouvelles Propagandes
Release date: May 13th, 2025
Country: France
Format reviewed: High-quality digital recording
Album Review: Day Before Us – Dim Shores Of Eternity via Les Nouvelles Propagandes by Pegah
Sometimes, listening to an album is so serene and evocative that it feels like stargazing under a quiet night sky or watching seagulls drift over the sea. That’s exactly how I feel when I listen to “Dim Shores of Eternity” by Day Before Us. Philippe Blache presents a different range of soundscapes and atmospheres in this release, distinct from his previous album, Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis. As the title suggests, “Dim Shores of Eternity” tells a story of those who have become part of the eternal – its cover art, featuring a lone seagull in flight, evokes a profound sense of freedom and transcendence. The album opens with sounds that feel weightless and adrift, like echoes from a vast void where lost souls wander. Throughout, the presence of wind plays a central role, subtle yet constant. I felt it in every track, as if it has always been and always will be the very embodiment of eternity itself.
Then “Light Tears From Heaven Won’t Let My Memories Pass Away”, graced by a celestial female vocal, her voice like a eulogy, entwined with the wind. Each note carries the weight of remembrance, as if teardrops themselves are narrating both joy and sorrow. It evokes that bittersweet ache of memories that linger and are never forgotten. “Calling From The Windy Deeps” feels like reaching out to loved ones across an endless distance your voice carried away by the wind, lost in a void with no reply. There’s a deep sense of sorrow and fragility, as if you’re on the edge of being undone. Yet, just as despair begins to settle in, the heavenly voice returns gentle and luminous embracing you…But the truth is, we are “Alone In The Midst Of Men” especially when we are far from our loved ones, unable to hear their voices ever again. The immersive soundscape returns, and with it, the ethereal female vocal chants a song of farewell.
There’s a quiet struggle in letting go, a sorrow that persists. Yet, as the “Voyage Of The Summoned Souls” begins, the gentle sound of the piano emerges soothing and tender easing the ache of parting. “And The Echoes Sung Back From The Vale” unfolds through raindrops and delicate piano, echoing the voices of souls who have departed. It feels like a sign from beyond a whisper from the realm where they now reside. The album’s closing track, “Der König in Thule”, is steeped in a dark, heavy atmosphere that seeks to embody the void itself. A chilling stillness pervades the track, the wind once again completing the spectral scene. Then, a haunting female chant emerges, as if we are suddenly seated before an opera. It feels like we have been witnessing a grand performance all along, and now, “Dim Shores of Eternity” a solemn, beautiful play brought to a resonant end. 9/10
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