with the exclusive iTunes bonus track, "Goddess Eyes III"
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmT7GKPsxto
― sword of (seandalai), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
IIRC
Goddess EyesEkstasis: Goddess Eyes Part IIEkstasis III
third one takes place in afghanistan and is kind of nagl TBH
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
JH takes on contemporary culture, reveals herself to be as boring as everyone else
http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9147-julia-holter/
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 10 June 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
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
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Z S, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link
i've never seen her solo but i saw her backing linda perhacs the other week
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
(nite jewel, too)
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
Hey, how was Perhacs?
― kaptn barfhard (NickB), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
oooooh, I'm imagining Julia singing "Hello Stranger," and it's just the sound I need in my head right now!
― Laws, yes! M-O-O-N spells (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
The new album gets a good review in this month's The Wire
― paolo, Thursday, 18 July 2013 07:33 (ten years ago) link
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
― going to grind shows so they can quasi-ironically EDM (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 18 July 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
loving the new record. great night music. bit like julee cruise in places but more abstract.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:33 (ten years ago) link
Shades of Stina Nordenstam?
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
show at Cecil Sharp House the other night was beautiful, keys-violin-cello-sax-drums lineup and everything so perfectly arranged.
― Clyde One DJ Diane “Knoxy” Knox-Campbell (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
"maxim's i" is nice. kinda reminds me of josephine foster
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 26 August 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
"city appearing" sounds a lot like broadcast. loving these trish keenan echoes
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 26 August 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
her drummer is bad in an interesting way, i think
― szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 26 August 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
No, her drummer is good.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 04:44 (ten years ago) link
really great album
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 04:45 (ten years ago) link
Agreed.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 10:30 (ten years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
i always want to like her but the new one is growing on me a lot more than previous ones have
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Henry Charles Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Br (seandalai), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
glad her career is doing well after whiney said that she's not music on twitter.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 8 September 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 8 September 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Anyone else going to the London show-in-a-church on Monday?
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Cole MGN produces both Nite Jewel and Holter
― calstars, Friday, 18 July 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 18 July 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Very much into this: https://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/julia-holter-dont-make-me-over
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Thursday, 31 July 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
That new single is brilliant.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
Sorry to ... plant... insideEcho, echo, echo, echo, echo, echo insideWe 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 sideOne side, one side, one side, one side
― paolo, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
On a bit of a Julia Holter tip right about now
― paolo, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
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).
― yugi ex, Friday, 23 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
ekstasis probably my favourite, everything comes together perfectly imo
― seandalai, Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:03 (nine years ago) link
So Tragedy or Loud City Song next?
― yugi ex, Monday, 26 January 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
loud city song imo
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 January 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Don't Dream it's Over (2007)
― äkta människa (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Julia Holter announces new album, Have You In My Wildernesshttp://www.treblezine.com/24136-julia-holter-new-album-have-you-in-my-wilderness/
Julia Holter - Feel Youhttps://youtu.be/X2JgMniIpRM
― djmartian, Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
New song is lovely
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:51 (eight years ago) link
have you in my wilderness just leaked
― j. winters (josh), Sunday, 6 September 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
I'm only three songs in and listening on shitty laptop speakers while packing stuff up and I can already tell that this is incredible.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 6 September 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
more engaging on first listen than her other stuff
― calstars, Sunday, 6 September 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link