[1] She is a solo artist, previously a member of the alternative rock band JJ72, with which she played bass guitar from 1996 until 2003.
[3] She quit the music industry until 2013, returning with her first solo album, The River Cry, and the EP Night the following year.
[1] Woods was raised in Dublin by parents that fostered a musical environment, playing classical, folk and rock LPs in the home.
[3] The group toured for a total of four years, after which Woods left the band and did not return to the music industry for more than a decade.
[3] After her spell in fine art school and having studied literature and film in college, she returned to music under the name The River Cry for one confidential self-titled album in 2013,[4] then started to release EPs under her own name (Night in 2014 and Heartbox in 2016); leading to her debut solo record Colt in 2018[5] as a Sacred Bones artist.