09/16/2025

Sister Irene O’connor – Fire of God’s Love – Available November 14

Fire of God’s Love is the legendary 1973 album by Australian nun Sister Irene O’connor—a sincere, soulful, and unwittingly psychedelic song sequence devoted to self-reflectiom. arriving November 14 on Freedom To Spend.

While residing at a Sydney convent in the early 1970s, Sister Irene channeled her devotion into a collection of original folk spirituals. Recorded on a 4 track reel-to-reel by fellow nun and recording engineer Sister Marimil Lobregat, Fire of God’s Love is an archive of early electronic experimentation filled with reverb and analog synthesizer hum.

Today, we share a glimpse in the form of “Fire (Luke 12:49)”, a track that introduces the album’s uncanny otherworldliness, with Irene’s ethereal voice communing with electric organ drum beats to hypnotic effect.

After a half-century of underground lore, Fire of God’s Love is available now for pre-order in limited fire marbled and black vinyl, cd, and digital editions.