By skyforbes 
Woods’s droning arrangements paint the haunting image of unresolved emotions still permeating the memories they’re attached to.
Sometimes a project just happens to float your way. It was a chance TikTok ad for Hilary Woods’s latest album, Night CRIÚ, that caught my ear and had me itching to hear more. Woods originally garnered attention as the bassist for the band JJ72s in the late 90s/early 2000s before parting ways with the music industry until the late 2010s, when her dark ambient sound began to take shape. Night CRIÚ sounds like distant memories that still haunt a room of so much left unsaid.
Hilary explained to The Bad Arts that these various textures were the centerpiece to this ambivalence that leaves this specter clinging to each place we visit:
“The texture on this record brought character. I left a lot of the instrumentation relatively dry, rolled off reverb to bring the instrumentation closer and give breath, and then, of course, field recordings and tape hiss played a huge role. My relationship with injecting my music with texture has been a long love affair that has only really just begun!… I wanted to have children singing on Night CRIÚ from the get-go. Specifically, untrained children’s voices singing in unison. Wonder…