Experimental songstress Hilary Woods released her ethereal new single “Endgames“, along with a cryptic music video.
Incorporating her analog film practice and inspired by unspoken bonds that bind us to another, the video to “Endgames” was made by Woods. Piecing together her own 16mm and super 8 film footage processed by hand in the darkroom, combined with archive footage, home movies, profile photographs by Joshua Wright, and Hilary’s own drawings on celluloid film.
Following two experimental instrumental records, Hilary Woods returns on her new LP Night CRIÚ, out Oct 31st via Sacred Bones Records, to song form and most notably, to her voice. Crafting songs centered around it, Night CRIÚ’s intimate ecosystem of seven songs uses layers of vocal harmony and lyrics as ways to re-enter the body, to uproot old scripts and to make the unconscious conscious.
On Night CRIÚ , unmoored sonic threads recall the cracks, fringes, forgotten agency and dormant personas that surface at night, waiting to be retrieved and integrated come daylight. A ceremony of light and shade, Night CRIÚ is a record that riles against bludgeoning monoculture in its reclaiming and mourning a lost innocence all at once, and in its reaching to integrate lost and splintered parts of the whole.
Despite its economy, each song on Night CRIÚ breathes into an expansive depth of feeling quintessential of Woods’s compositions, and true to her artistry, a search for new possibilities and direction is ever present, expressed most keenly here in her writing for brass band and children’s choir.
For Woods “Each record is a life buoy, a raft, a snapshot, a marker in the sand, a date that requires me to meet it. Making records is a way of being”.
