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The Rising Compass

Daylight Animal

Chad LewineAlbum · January, 27 2015 · 15 tracks

What is this album about?

A sunrise awakening from a young lover of life who turns his appetite toward conscience and his own recovery.

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How Does This Release Move Across Its Tracks?

After a wordless tune-up the album wakes as pure appetite, a heaven-sent call to let the animal out followed by a run of love songs about bodies of light, destined partners and lovers who already know each other. Midway a question about faith and death breaks the spell, and a clean-up-the-Earth pep talk turns the album outward.

From there it climbs, through a new-age call to rise together and a flip-it-around pep talk, to a vow that love outlasts weapons and a gentle plea for forgiveness. It lands on a reckoning in which the narrator owns the choices that brought him low and resolves to clean up, a hard-won ending that gives the whole sunrise its weight.

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What Might This Release Do to a Listener?

A listener who takes in the whole album absorbs a sunrise in miniature: instinct and romance first, then a widening concern for the world and for the self. The closing reckoning gives that openness a practical end, owning past choices and resolving to clean up.

Repeated exposure strengthens forgiveness and a readiness to take responsibility for one's own path. Sensual pleasure stays in the picture, kept gentle. The resulting disposition is warm, awakened resolve.

What Might This Release Do to a Society?

A society that takes this album in rehearses personal awakening as a path from appetite to conscience. Collective repetition pairs frank sensuality with calls to clean the planet's waters and to refuse war.

At the population level, recovery and forgiveness gain a hopeful, spiritual vocabulary, and environmental and anti-war concern find an easy chorus. The aggregate effect is a gentle strengthening of collective conscience and personal accountability.

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