The eviscerating new album Like A Holy Face marks Philippe’s return to releasing music after the impact of serious health challenges sent him through a dark night of the soul. With songs that are as brave as they are vulnerable, the album is an offering of intimacy, pain, resilience and release. Emblematic of Philippe’s deft ability to weave lived experiences into sound and song, Like A Holy Face grows from an exposed acoustic guitar and vocal into a journey that is gorgeously melodic, atmospheric and textured. Summoning raw fragility in a brand new light; each song holds its own creating many rooms to a well lived-in home including the imperfections and vivid atmospheric noises that surrounded Philippe during the recording process. The album bares the scars of Philippe’s inner world while panning out to offer hope, comfort and encouragement to a world faced with socio-political and ecological crisis, degradation of the land and our relationship with it accompanied by violence and acts if war. His experiences over the past few years can be felt breathing through this album, and he offers a remarkable resolution to choose hope and encouragement closing the album with the line ‘heaven surrounds, find it you know how, there’s no time, there’s no time like now”.