December 2025: Land of Winter makes best of the year lists from the New York Times, Boston Globe and Gramophone

Land of Winter makes best of the year lists from the New York Times, Boston Globe and Gramophone.

“At once vigorously abstract and vividly atmospheric, this musical almanac by Ireland’s most important living composer evokes the changing seasons with glinting high harmonics, restless bass wanderings and shifting soundscapes. Austere on the surface, the music shimmers with subtle energy — like a gray sky that reveals unexpected gradations of color.” New York Times

“In virtually every musical facet — timbre, harmony, structure — it’s shockingly original, while also being compulsively listenable, particularly in Alarm Will Sound’s muscular performance. Boston Globe

Land of Winter was also the focus of a New Sounds show on WNYC, available here.