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Dark Eyed Messenger

2017 studio album by Adrian Crowley

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ65058137 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dark Eyed Messenger is the eighth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley. It was released on 27 October 2017 through Chemikal Underground.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dark Eyed Messenger” as 2017 studio album by Adrian Crowley. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dark, Eyed and Messenger.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dark, Eyed and Messenger providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Dark Eyed Messenger”, the useful work is to connect “2017 studio album by Adrian Crowley” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q65058137. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dark Eyed Messenger” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.