First Listen is the part of Musos' Guide where we tempt you in with lesser played tracks from the recent past or this very minute. Enjoy.

Live Dates:-

Jun 2 Yeah festival - Lourmarin, FR
Jun 4 Aucard de Tours Festival - Tours, FR
Jun 6 Le Cargo - Caen, FR
Jun 7 La Nef (Gonzai Night) - Angouleme, FR
Jun 8 Stereolithe (L’Autre Canal) - Nancy, FR
Jun 10 BOLb Festival - Moscow, RU
Jun 22 Minuit Avant La Nuit - Amiens, FR
Jun 23 Meltdown w/ My Bloody Valentine - London, UK
Jun 24 Meltdown w/ The KVB - London, UK
Jul 7 Nel Nome De Rock Festival - Palestrina, IT
Jul 14 Kliko Fest - Haarlem, NL
Jul 21 Rock Herk - Herk de Stad, BE
Aug 10 Chiu Festival - Bari, IT
Aug 12 Here I Stay Festival - Sardinia, IT
Aug 14 FZW Club - Dortmund, DE
Aug 15 Schlachthof - Wiesbaden, DE
Aug 16 Kleine Freiheit - Osnabruck, DE
Aug 17 MS Dockville - Hamburg, DE
Aug 18 Rock Altitude Festival - La Locle, CH
Aug 24 Freakshow Festival - Gigors et Lozeron, FR
Aug 25 Riverock Fest - Assisi, IT
Sep 21/22 Levitation - Angers, FR
Oct 4 ISC - Bern, CH
Oct 5 Rocking Chair - Vevey, CH
Oct 6 Rotefabrik - Zurich, CH
Oct 10 Sala Apolo 2 - Barcelona, ES
Oct 11 Sala Copernico - Madrid, ES
Oct 12 RCA Club - Lisbon, PT
Oct 13 Hard Club - Porto, PT
Nov 4 Industrial Festival - Wroclaw, PL

In anticipation of the release of debut album, Colt, on June 8 via Sacred Bones Records, Dublin-based artist Hilary Woods has shared a new track and video from the record, ‘Prodigal Dog’. Speaking about the visuals for the new single, Woods said “For Prodigal Dog, I set out to make a video that was slightly claustrophobic, cyclical, predominantly black in colour, one that traced the internal feeling from where the song was written”.

After the release of two critically acclaimed EPs, Woods spent 2017 writing and recording songs on an eight-track in an abandoned flat she was living in at the time. Layering piano, synth, tape machine, field recordings, vocals, drone, unadorned beats, and old string instruments, these songs culminate in her debut solo LP, Colt. Straddling the acoustic and electronic worlds, Colt is an intensely personal journey through grief, abandonment, and mutating love. Woods navigates this journey with a lyrical potency that cuts through stark piano, sensuous synth work, and textural acoustics. Somewhere between Marissa Nadler, Grouper and Julee Cruise, these songs evoke both the anguish of their content and the ecstasy of their craft.

Growing up in an artistic household on Dublin’s Northside, Woods studied film and literature, dropping in and out of fine art school. In 2014, she returned to music to record in whatever free space was available in and around the city. A singular vision and tenacious creativity has seen Woods cross multi-disciplinary thresholds, exploring visual and performance art alike. In 2017, she was chosen as Dublin Fringe Festival's “Wild Card” artist after writing a theatre piece from sound design. Whilst earlier in the year she was asked to compose an original score for a horror film as part of the Irish Film Institute's season celebrating the cinema of the Weimar Republic.

“Colt was created as a way to process and make sense of the everyday,” Woods imparts. “As a means to speak with inner voices, explore aloneness, and understand the complexities of desire. As a vehicle for imaginative flight, as a quest for resilience and connectivity to the outside world, as a medium through which to journey into the present, to temper the mind and inhabit the body”.

See Hilary Woods live:

11th June - St Pancras Church, London UK

20th June - Meltdown Festival, London UK w/ Moon Duo

14th Sept - The Sugar Club, Dublin IRL