After two experimental instrumental albums, ‘Feral Hymns’ (2021) and ‘Acts of Light’ (2023), Irish artist Hilary Woods returns with her new album ‘Night CRIÚ’, focusing on song form and, above all, her voice.

A ceremony of light and shadow, the untied threads of sound in ‘Night CRIÚ’ evoke cracks, margins, forgotten actions, and dormant characters that emerge at night, waiting to be recovered and integrated into the light of day. Despite its simplicity, each track breathes with an emotional depth typical of Hilary Woods’ compositions and, true to her art, the search for a new direction is ever-present.

An album that rebels against oppressive monoculture, simultaneously claiming and mourning lost innocence, ‘Night CRIÚ’ seeks to integrate the lost and fragmented parts of the whole, making the unconscious conscious. On a textual level, Woods subverts and reconfigures interpersonal relationships, with words that act as mottled photographic close-ups planted in darkness to blossom towards the light.

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