Julianna Barwick

I was saying more, "made in a bedroom" rather than "it sounds like a bedroom" - because it really doesn't sound like a bedroom. It's that immense reverb that gives it that sweeping sense of space, cathedrals, halls, echoing mountaintops. It's weird seeing her making music in such a tiny enclosed room, because it sounds so designed for huge, sweeping spaces.

Oh yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with you at all.

Seeing her do her thing live is incredible: like, it's not just a triumph of craft but a triumph of vision, her ability to harmonise with and work loops based on her own voice, to make something that sounds so fully-formed and evocative and rich.

Beautiful. Had it in all last night while cooking a fish curry. Just purely wonderful.

Anyone else enjoying the Ombre album? "A modern avant pop masterpiece" says your man in The Wire, probably an overstatement but it is very pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EMSW5fPDpI

She released a new song! Don't know how to embed yet so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFBXBfx7o5c

Good stuff

This is nice:

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

New album out soon...going to see her in London on Tuesday, will hopefully be a good time.

Live show was amazing last time around - managed to make a dingy little basement bar sound like a cathedral.

She's so good live. Just beautiful

coming to chicago in sept!

Anyone interested in going to the London show on Tuesday? I might have a spare ticket or two.

holy heck, that new song is beautiful. i don't know what is is about those voices singing the high notes but they seemed pitched specifically to set off my blub reflex

ach, that music is to my lachrymal glands what limes are to my saliva ducts. anyway, well done on making an old man cry. good job

aiiee, patten is the support act in london, which seems like a weird one but fuck, i do love patten

dog latin, are you going to this yourself? FAP?

yeah i'm def going - won tickets through work but don't have anyone who can make it so would be good to meet up.

Cool - maybe I can ILXmail you to arrange something?

yeah dog latin at gee mail dot com

Really enjoyed this! Also fun to meet up with a dog latin.

Someone has put the whole show up on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wty4q9xerzI

Oh cool. Yeah, nice to meet you seandalai - I'll let you know if ever I'm in Cambridge.

new album is pretty lovely

this is one is pretty special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_4SejXgvCc

saw her open for the flaming lips, here in new jersey. she was great, but the crowd were really disrespectful and there were some sound issues at the start. but apart from that, she was amazing.

super fast shipping. would do business with again a+++

The Magic Place > Nepenthe. "Pyrrhic" is... interesting. The rest is really good though.

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/04/207297220/first-listen-julianna-barwick-nepenthe

new one sounds like julianna barwick

Nepenthe is truly fantastic.

Heard it once, another ravishing listen imo.

Listened last night, liked. Don't really remember much about it cause of insomnia pain & booze but it made enough of an impression that it'll go into rotation.

ja this is good

Kinda surprised there isn't more talk about it.

The last ~minute or so of "The Harbinger" is so beautiful that it basically makes me never want to listen to music again.

The cat noises in Pyrrhic, though.

>Kinda surprised there isn't more talk about it.

me too. Beautiful album.

But Florine definitely won me.

Saw her live at the Southbank Centre a few months ago, and I was quite surprised by how laid-back and friendly and, well, goofy she was! Because her music suggests some shy, ethereal being, but she was funny and warm. Lex told me she had a new album out this year, but I still haven't managed to hear it; must make more of an effort to.

She seemed goofy (in a good way) in this interview too http://www.popmatters.com/feature/175284-unknown-discoveries-an-interview-with-julianna-barwick/

love her & nepenthe. easily one of my 2013 favorites (though, yeah, i still prefer the magic placce). perhaps the absence of discussion is due to the abstract nature of her music. we mention the evocative beauty in general terms, but everything past that is personal, inchoate.

Enya??

more like Julianna Beerwick

http://www.dogfish.com/community/blogfish/members/justin-williams/dogfish-collaborates-with-musician-julianna-barwick-to-celebrate-completion-of-18-mon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXnB6zzXLKw

new one is really good, definitely preferring it to nepenthe. very cocteau twins i think?

Nobody is ever going to be surprised by a Julianna Barwick album but this is pretty sweet on a first listen

I wasn't feeling this one as much. Obviously she uses technology to make her music but this one doesn't feel as organic or natural as the last two. Still an 8/10 and probably better than a lot of stuff I'll hear this year

New one has beautiful moments. And I think it can grow on me more

it's obviously got a lot less of the earthy folk vibe, but i think it's quite reminiscent of the le mystere des voix bulgares records

I've not really engaged much with her before but the new one is amazing.

New one's pretty great. After having my hopes raised by the return of the Magic Place font.

God, this is gorgeous stuff. "Oh, Memory" with Mary Lattimore's harp and the strings on "Safe" are particularly sublime. The title track, too, is one to get lost in.

Today I learned that Ninja Tune still exists.

I've been deeply enjoying this new one

some parts of this are as lovely as ever but it has a widescreen cinematic quality that does a lot less for me. Listening to The Magic Place felt like stumbling into something intimate and private despite its gargantuan sound, whereas a lot of this just sounds like big soundtrack music

The first three songs on Healing Is a Miracle have stayed with me all year. They will pop up on random playlists and everything around me just shuts down. I particularly love the mix of light and heavy textures on this one. The bass can be enveloping.

Enya??

and what's wrong with that

the album is nice and I really needed it last year

and probably this year

yeah, this was a major record for me last year -- definitely a top favorite

I always enjoy a new album, but to be honest it gets hard to tell them apart.

Turns out that what I really needed was JB + ~~~~flute vibes~~~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APlC8ldtD2s

The three collaborations on this one (especially Oh Memory w/ Mary Lattimore) + the fulsome lower register made this one stand out from the rest of her catalog for me. Probably still reach for Nepenthe most of the time, though.

Healing is a Miracle has crept up as probably my favorite record from 2020, as Indexed notes when a track from it comes on the whole world seems to red shift into prehistory. The adjacency to Grouper, so close but also so different, makes me think of the future as a catalog with no gaps.

Somehow I never got around to Healing is a Miracle, or maybe I wasn't paying enough attention for it to resonate with me, but listening to it today it is bowling me over. Magic Place is the one that I hold close to my heart, and the usual Julianna Barwick stuff on Healing is totally on par with that, while the guests and additions add a whole other emotional dimension. Indexed otm re: "the fulsome lower register." I surprised myself with the comparison but when the deep rumbling synth comes in on "Inspirit" it reminds me of when the synths come in on "O Superman" and add a whole array of richer, more foreboding colors to the palette. Great album. I will probably still listen to Magic Place more because it is such mood music to me, and the moods on this one are more diverse. But without giving it too much thought this one is feeling like her best artistic achievement thus far.