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Hilary Woods Birthmarks [Sacred Bones]

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The latest full length from moody multi-disciplina­rian, Hilary Woods, marks another leap in the erstwhile JJ72 bassist’s musical metamorpho­sis. Principall­y recorded while heavily pregnant; Birthmarks’ eight deeply ambient, richly appointed tracks can be read as a meditation on one’s own selfhood and what it means to gestate another life while facing an uncertain future – to put it generously. Birthmarks’ unique alchemy is born of its juxtaposit­ions, as rumbling, brutal tones evolve into more delicate, ethereal textures and vice-versa as Woods and Co. playfully blur the line between unorthodox percussion, woodwinds and studio trickery.

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