Release Date June 19th, 2026
Format LP/CD/Digital
Genre Progressive Rock
Origin England
Liminal Sky is an English band created by producer and multi instrumentalist Jaime Gomez Arellano and musician Daniel Knight, renewing a partnership developed during their years in an earlier British band. Arellano has extensive studio experience across metal, progressive rock and experimental music, while Knight handles guitars, bass and keyboards alongside him. The pair wrote and arranged the entire debut, with Arellano also taking charge of drums, production, mixing and mastering.
Although the band revolves around these two musicians, its first album involves Mat McNerney, Kristoffer Rygg, Karin Park, Daniel O'Sullivan, Lars Horntveth, Alicia Nurho, Anders Møller, Tore Ylwizaker, Ole Alexander Halstensgård and Matt Rozeik. Their contributions widen the sonic range through several distinct voices, strings, saxophone, lap steel, piano, percussion and synthesizers.
Released through Karisma Records, "All Tomorrow's Darkness" contains nine songs and runs for about an hour. The main sessions took place at Orgone Studios in the Bedfordshire countryside, with extra work completed at The Friary Studios and The Smokehouse Studio in London. Mat McNerney wrote the lyrics, concentrating on bereavement, sleeplessness, isolation and the dull routine of days shaped by emotional collapse. His weary low register dominates much of the album, while Kristoffer Rygg and Karin Park introduce colder and more theatrical vocal colors. The production places wide guitar layers, restrained drumming and dark keyboards around voices that often seem close to breaking.
"Some Other Time", "A Solitary Future" and "Penance" establish the album’s range without disrupting its persistent grey atmosphere. Strings and saxophone are used with restraint, adding depth where a basic crescendo would have been too predictable. Several extended sections develop through subtle changes in harmony and texture, though others continue past their emotional peak. The subdued tempo range also causes parts of the middle portion to merge together. More contrast would have made those long forms hit deeper.
As a complete album, "All Tomorrow's Darkness" presents grief with dignity. The immaculate production occasionally places that grief behind glass, especially when the arrangements become too elegant for the subject. McNerney’s lyrics and the changing vocal presence restore a human fracture that the music sometimes smooths away. The title song ends the album on a bleak note that has been patiently prepared across the previous hour. Liminal Sky has produced an ambitious debut with rich detail, firm songwriting and a genuine emotional core. Its slower sections require patience, and its narrow emotional temperature can become numbing, though the atmosphere remains difficult to dismiss once the final notes fade.
|7.5
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