Album Review: Birthmarks by Hilary Woods

Hillary Woods made this record, her second, while she was pregnant. She recorded it between her home in Galway, Ireland and in the home of her producer--the Norwegian noisenik Lasse Marhaug--who has frequently collaborated with Woods' labelmate Jenny Hval. Noise-folk of this kind is supposed to be more illusory than your traditional pop album, filling in the gaps between each sound so that it becomes its own Rorschach test.

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