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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Irish singer-songwriter Hilary Woods was mixed by Dean Hurley.
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- Record Label: Sacred Bones
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Nov 5, 2025A majestic record of solemn beauty. Not only does Night CRIÚ sound unlike anything else in 2025, it also stands proudly alongside the year’s very best work.
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Nov 5, 2025The songs are slow moving wonders that gather emotional steam with each passing moment. The pay off to this is an album full of unflinching narratives, and thoughts, that, if you let them, have the power to stop you in your tracks. ‘Night CRIÚ‘ is an album to get lost in with this night crew.
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Nov 5, 2025Across seven songs, she builds an intimate ecosystem of sound: an act of re-inhabiting the body through vocal layering, breath and harmony.
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The WireDec 16, 2025Children's voices soften and lift the sound, not with nostalgia but with unvarnished purity. Even the darkest tracks have this sense of movement: "Endgames" trudges on a low, stubborn pulse until bowed strings and harp flourishes nudge it into tentative radiance. The album becomes a procession, carrying its own weight into a brighter place. [Jan/Feb 2026, p.88]
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Nov 18, 2025Given her focus on the internal world she’s created, Night CRIÚ arrives feeling something like an emergence. Indeed, the emotions on display are still furtive and inscrutably personal, yet the music here is the most tangible Woods has offered to date, the most vivid.
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UncutNov 5, 2025The drowsy pacing and solemn tone drag at times, but these slow-burn ballads from a lo-fi Lynchian netherworld are most achingly beautiful. [Dec 2025, p.37]