Tamino
Every Dawn's a Mountain


4.5
superb

Review

by doofy USER (40 Reviews)
March 27th, 2025 | 34 replies


Release Date: 03/21/2025 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Still the greatest living Belgian

This third full length release from Tamino is a challenge to do justice to in a review I'm afraid, as really the headline news is it's a logical progression from its predecessors and it keeps up the consistency he's (hopefully) recognised for. For sure detractors could say 'Every Dawn...' is predictable following 2022's admittedly largely similar 'Sahar', but I'd shoot back that he's just showing how reassuringly dependable he is. You keep on keeping on Tamino.

So once again, not a weak song to report here, perhaps a couple leave less of an impression such as the more obviously autobiographical closer, but at the final reckoning all this material is subtle, intimate and evocative. Is it strange such a strong vocalist is happy to embrace so much minimalism and understatement in his writing and performance style? Maybe a little, he never goes the Jeff Buckley route of free wheeling, fluttering jazz influenced vocal arrangements that's for sure.

It's a very close call but this might just be his strongest outing so far; 'Babylon', 'Raven' and 'Elegy' are obviously (you'd think?) spellbinding, with the expected Eastern influences in the backing instrumentation working particularly well on these numbers, but the more abstract material like 'Willow' and 'Dissolve' are mesmeric too. Within the current crop of 'male vocal showcase' singer-songwriter, chamber folk(ish) performers I'm struggling to think of anyone more reliable off the top of my head...and that has to count for something.



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DoofDoof
March 27th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah yeah, glorified apologetic soundoff...but this is what we're getting.

Demon of the Fall
March 27th 2025


37875 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Oh. Nice one. I haven’t checked this yet (will do) but I enjoy(ed) his previous material

DoofDoof
March 27th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Demon - if you liked his previous then you'll surely dig this to some degree.



It's fuller and better rounded than 'Sahar' overall I'd say...and I loved 'Sahar'.

Demon of the Fall
March 27th 2025


37875 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Cool. I disagree with the premise of the summary when Eden Hazard still exists tho, lol

DoofDoof
March 27th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hazard didn't quite fulfil his potential - Tamino still has time on his side ;p

Demon of the Fall
March 27th 2025


37875 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

😂 he’s a “the streets won’t forget” sort of guy



I’m biased (clearly) but I can just about count on one hand the players I’d rather watch (since circa ‘96), he was that special imo. Also, for all the hype the Belgian national team received in recent tournaments, he was the only one who performed at a “player of the tournament level” (KDB never did). It’s not his fault the rest weren’t up to it!

DoofDoof
March 27th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

To be fair to him, injuries played a big part

Demon of the Fall
March 27th 2025


37875 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Oh, at the end for sure. He would’ve cemented his legacy with Real otherwise. He didn’t “win enough” with Chelsea despite his performances (unlucky timing tbh). And it’s not his fault he was Belgian. He was more integral to every side he played in vs many of those who are maybe rated higher is all I’m saying



then again he was a dying breed, a maverick. We won’t see his like again imo. More Ronaldinho than CR7 (not original Ronaldo, because he was a special ‘natural talent’ too).

DoofDoof
March 27th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yes, the modern stat obsessed/risk averse xG game is killing the desire to play maverick players, so there will certainly be fewer and fewer of them.



You're right, a player you'd pay to watch - with KDB I've always been aware that he doesn't actually have as many goal involvements as the hyperbole would have you believing, you wouldn't bet the mortgage on him finishing a more difficult chance.

Demon of the Fall
March 27th 2025


37875 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Sure. Salah is a prime example of that for me. Great player tho.



and I’m sure it was in jest but I imagine people like Pangaea might have a counter argument re the Belgian thing in general 😆

DePlazz
March 27th 2025


4917 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I put this on on a whim the other day and liked it a lot, he clearly has matured a great deal. Hated his debut and couldn't stand the hype around it, didn't bother with his second album.

DoofDoof
March 27th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

DePlazz - the debut is a bit more highs and relative lows I guess, more obviously Rufus Wainwright/Jeff Buckley flamboyant, but being someone drawn to folk/chamber pop myself I've really appreciated him going more in that direction, and it is a more muted and subtle style now - inc his approach to his vocals.



Some aren't fans, say he's gone too dry, but if you like this one then 'Sahar' would be similar.

Hawks
Contributing Reviewer
March 27th 2025


102036 Comments


This sounds very interesting.

DoofDoof
March 28th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hawks I think you’ll either find this amazing or a bit boring, and I can’t guess which :D

dedex
Staff Reviewer
March 28th 2025


12939 Comments

Album Rating: 3.6 | Sound Off

aight nice one doofy

DoofDoof
March 28th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

cheers man, glad you've rated this, album needs more ratings

Demon of the Fall
March 28th 2025


37875 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah, not sure I’m digging this change in direction. In refining and perhaps “stripping back” his style, I feel like some individuality has been lost. It could simply be that Tamino is now leaning more on influences that are less appealing to me

DoofDoof
March 28th 2025


16767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

He’s more doofcore than he started out so I love this…but I get it

Hawks
Contributing Reviewer
March 28th 2025


102036 Comments


Hawks I think you’ll either find this amazing or a bit boring, and I can’t guess which :D

We shall find out this weekend at some point lol.

Demon of the Fall
March 28th 2025


37875 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

lol I definitely got more of a doofcore vibe here, I did think that while listening so not surprised you dig!



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