Before the Day Breaks is a 2007 collaborative album from Robin Guthrie, formerly of the Cocteau Twins, and ambient artist Harold Budd.

It was released, as a matched CD, on the same day as After the Night Falls,[2] also by Guthrie and Budd.

In December 2007, American webzine Somewhere Cold ranked Before the Day Breaks No.

6 on their 2007 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame.

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