Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves

Released 22nd March 2024

My heart is loud, Julia Holter sings on her sixth albumSomething in the Room She Moves, following an inner pulse. The Los Angeles songwriters past work has often explored memory and dreamlike future, but her latest album resides more in presence: Theres a corporeal focus, inspired by the complexity and transformability of our bodies, Holter says. Her production choices and arrangements form a continuum of fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding vocal melodies, while glissing Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine warm winds and reeds. I was trying to create a world thats fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the bodys internal sound world, Holter says of herflowing harmonic universe.

What is delicious and what is omniscient? she sings on Spinning, thealbums incantatory centrepiece. What is the circular magic Im visiting? Or as Holter put it: Its about being in the passionate state of