Julia Holter

"Evening Mood" is gorgeous.

A bit too much flute

no malice whatsoever, but you're weird.

Yep this is great. Listening again to “Meyou” I recalled Whiney’s timeless Grimes takedown: “sounds like you’ve come home to discover that your cat has learned how to use Ableton”

^lol

xxpost wtf?

idk if this is a lazy take (it probably is), but "meyou" made me think of a medulla track from bjork (i mean this v positively)

xpost- hi jay vee! i'm just an offended flute fan having a goof. pay me no mind.

m bison-
i think it's an important part of the discourse to try + figure out where stuff came from. sighting medulla as a possible source is more than valid with that song. (i get that medulla wasn't the first or best or anything, but in a pop music context, the rules changed a bit after that album)

on that note, i will take this opportunity to bring up skin diver by nona hendryx. i only heard it for the first time in the past few years, but it immediately sounded like a distant relative of julia holter's music. the new album has solidified that for me.

+on that note, it blew my mind to find steve tibbetts on one of her artist-curated playlists last album cycle. idk why that's so entertaining to me. i found tibbetts years before holter, but the connection makes immediate sense.

If anyone here wants two tickets to her London show on the 9th let me know (and give me some way to contact you). I’ve got to be in Scotland for a funeral. Not looking for any money, just want the tickets to be enjoyed, gutted I can’t make it.

"Meyou" reminds me a bit of Meredith Monk's stuff, which of course inspired Medúlla, so cosign I guess

can recommend catching her on tour for this, live set up for the new songs was pretty incredible; Dev Hoff killing it on fretless bass especially. did a beautiful rendition of Meyou with Jenny Hval and her band too, though I think that was a London treat.

Gorgeous new album. The title track is a melange (no Dune) of just about everything I could want in new music. That is all.