Julia Holter

Good grief:
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/mis/3650607077.html

Saw her perform last night in the midst of a video installation at The Walker Art Center. She's pretty much an introvert, doesn't really say much, but the music was lovely, including a charming version of Roxy Music's "2HB."

I got lost and wandered around in the rain for an hour on the way there, so I only made it to the third set. But yeah, it was a good show, I'm still glad I went.

New album out August 19: Loud City Song

01 World
02 Maxim’s I
03 Horns Surrounding Me
04 In The Green Wild
05 Hello Stranger
06 Maxim’s II
07 He’s Running Through My Eyes
08 This Is a True Heart
09 City Appearing

http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/22/julia-holter-announces-gigi-influenced-new-album-loud-city-song/

with the exclusive iTunes bonus track, "Goddess Eyes III"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmT7GKPsxto

with the exclusive iTunes bonus track, "Goddess Eyes III"

IIRC

Goddess Eyes
Ekstasis: Goddess Eyes Part II
Ekstasis III

third one takes place in afghanistan and is kind of nagl TBH

JH takes on contemporary culture, reveals herself to be as boring as everyone else

http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9147-julia-holter/

also LOL @ "bookstore-themed coffee shop in Echo Park"

i went to see julia holter. i have thoughts about the the sorta divide, with her songs, between more upfront, melodic songs & slightly mannered, laurie-anderson-ish material. her voice is overwhelming. but she played a cover, from the new record, that was really incredible, of hello stranger,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VDbbjIto4

i also saw julia holter, on her first show of the tour in DC. I thought she was pretty good, and the addition of the violin to her lineup was great. i was really blown away by the opener, jessica pratt, though! she was so awesome! however, i played her music to my girlfriend the next day and was told that she "sounds like jewel". so now i'm having existential doubts about my taste in music.

i've never seen her solo but i saw her backing linda perhacs the other week

(nite jewel, too)

Hey, how was Perhacs?

oooooh, I'm imagining Julia singing "Hello Stranger," and it's just the sound I need in my head right now!

perhacs was great - they managed to pull off 'parallelograms' live and she played a whole ton of new stuff, which sounded REALLY good. new album coming later this year i think?

The new album gets a good review in this month's The Wire

my thoughts so far is that 'Maxim's II' is the banger on this album

have a copy of 'Ekstasis' somewhere which I need to go back to

loving the new record. great night music. bit like julee cruise in places but more abstract.

Shades of Stina Nordenstam?

show at Cecil Sharp House the other night was beautiful, keys-violin-cello-sax-drums lineup and everything so perfectly arranged.

"maxim's i" is nice. kinda reminds me of josephine foster

"city appearing" sounds a lot like broadcast. loving these trish keenan echoes

her drummer is bad in an interesting way, i think

No, her drummer is good.

really great album

Agreed.

I am amazed how good this new one is, given that she's releasing a great album every year - you'd think there would be a slump eventually.

i always want to like her but the new one is growing on me a lot more than previous ones have

I'm kind of the opposite - loved the first two but have been having a hard time getting beyond "that's nice" with Loud City Song. I miss the pop moments. "He's Running Through My Eyes" and "City Appearing" are the tracks I currently like best.

glad her career is doing well after whiney said that she's not music on twitter.

i mean, she's not, she's a human.

huh the new one seems poppier than her old stuff to me. or maybe just warmer.

I know it's easy to infer, but I keep feeling bits of Nite Jewel vibes in the new record, maybe in the pacing, backing/secondary vocal bits. Maybe if NJ was into slightly uncooler 80s stuff? Very lush stuff.

feel like new one is both more demanding _and_ poppier, there's kind of a wider gulf between the songs in that way

she and nite jewel are friends/collaborators

nite jewel is much more (though not exlcuisvely) obviously devoted to a retro sonic palette

Her cover of "Gold Dust Woman" on MOJO Presents Rumours Revisited is outstanding. It takes a haunting song and enhances its ethereal spookiness, without being at all twee. No easy comparisons to Enya here.

Anyone else going to the London show-in-a-church on Monday?

Cole MGN produces both Nite Jewel and Holter

I won't be at the St John's show - I'd probably have gone if I hadn't recently moved, that venue used to be five minutes walk from my house, now it's three trains and closer to 90 minutes :'( - but yr in for a treat.

Very much into this: https://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/julia-holter-dont-make-me-over

That new single is brilliant.

Sorry to ... plant... inside
Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo, echo inside
We plan our purpose for his ...
We go, we go, we go, we go, we go outside, outside, outside
...fall, and summer gone,
Step to, step to, step to, step to outside
... creature love, follow, follow, follow follow one side
One side, one side, one side, one side

On a bit of a Julia Holter tip right about now

http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/01/23/julia-holter-ekstasis-round-77-toms-selection/

...but which is her best album? (This is the only one I own at the moment).

ekstasis probably my favourite, everything comes together perfectly imo

So Tragedy or Loud City Song next?

loud city song imo

Don't Dream it's Over (2007)

grant that this is 8 (!!) years old, but although i like most of her cover versions, they sound very much as if she applies the same spaced-out artiness (complete with 'distancing' effects on her vocals) to each one, in a quasi-formulaic way. it's getting predictable.

Julia Holter announces new album, Have You In My Wilderness
http://www.treblezine.com/24136-julia-holter-new-album-have-you-in-my-wilderness/

Julia Holter - Feel You
https://youtu.be/X2JgMniIpRM