Hilary Woods - Acts Of Light (Red Vinyl) [AOTY 2023]

SBR274LPC-AOTY

2023

SIGNED COPIES SOLD OUT. STILL INCLUDES HANDMADE BOOKMARK.

Dublin based Hilary Woods' latest for Sacred Bones plunges fully into the abyss she's been wading out into over her last few releases. Deep woody bowed strings row solemnly in tandem with droning electronics across a nebulous lough of choral voices and field recordings. Each piece feels vastly detailed, giving the feeling of swimming through the grand chambers of the cathedrals they were recorded in, down into the crypts below. Alongside her visual work, made with hand processed personal 8mm and 16mm film cut with footage from Irish cultural archives, the record feels like a meditation on generational memory, what we pass on subconsciously, the disquiet and poetry in accepting that.