Julia Holter

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

New song is lovely

have you in my wilderness just leaked

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.

more engaging on first listen than her other stuff

did Cole MGN produce this one as well?

sounds a little like julia is rerecording cocteau twins jams with lyrics translated from kobaian / hopelandish to english

interestingly enough, a good amount of this reminds me of enya? particularly "caribbean blue"

anyway i love it, julia is the best

did Cole MGN produce this one as well?

yep, fresh off the AOTY grammy win.

Really looking forward to this.

This is an amazing album and more people should be talking about it.

her stuff generally has a soporific effect on me, but will give this one another spin

Picked it up yesterday but haven't listened yet.

Night Song just floored me in Morrisons.

there's a trebly sheen on her vocals and a general 'brightness' about the music that makes it harsh on the ears. only heard the mp3s, but i don't have this problem with Loud City Song.. maybe i'm just old. or is it the excessive orchestral lushness that's simply buggin'

New album is a real grower

This is an amazing album but I find it mentally jarring to listen to

Still getting to know it but I love the arrangements - so light and graceful, birdlike somehow, that balance of ornament and simplicity. Great autumn album too

The sax solo on Sea Calls Me Home is hot! Also love the way she stresses the syllables on the chorus. I appreciate some might find her vocals mannered, but to me she does it in a really interesting and charming way.

Not all the songs have hit me yet like that one or Feel You, but as paolo says, it's definitely a grower.

her stuff generally has a soporific effect on me

― calstars, Monday, September 28, 2015 10:04 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weirdly i think holter would be OK with this!

love the way she stresses the syllables on the chorus. I appreciate some might find her vocals mannered, but to me she does it in a really interesting and charming way.

Yeah I was reading something where she was talking about trying to match her enunciation and the timbre of her voice to the character of the arrangement and it does make a lot more sense once you start listening to it that way.