The Dark is Rising

One of the best tracks from the wonderful All Is Dream sounds divine and otherworldly all its own. Cymabls crash and an orchestra swoons, and that ever-lovable space pop cadet Jonathan Donahue croons like delightfully dysfunctional angel. Best described by some words from the wonderful Susan Cooper book to which it owes its title: “He was woken by music. It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments he could not identify, with one rippling bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight.” Marvellous.