Today the six studio album Something in The Room She Moves by Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Julia Holter is out via Domino Records.
Her latest offering presents itself as one third atmospheric electronica, two parts introspective balladry all mixed with poetic lyricism creating something truly special for listeners.
About the album by Julia:
“There’s a corporeal focus, inspired by the complexity and transformability of our bodies,” she says.
Her production and arrangements form a continuum of Dev Hoff’s fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding vocal melodies, while glissing Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine soaring sax and clarinet (Chris Speed), and flute and piccolo (Maia).
Holter worked on the record with frequent collaborator Kenny Gilmore, who engineered, co-produced, and mixed the music, clarifying and illuminating each sonic detail.
Beth Goodfellow’s heartbeat-like percussion is filtered and processed for maximum mood, and Tashi Wada’s resonant Prophet pads underline the album’s spirit: “I was trying to create a world that’s fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the body’s internal sound world,” Holter says of her flowing harmonic universe.
On Something in the Room She Moves, Holter vividly processes the complexity, gravity, and awe of this confluence of this experience.
She calls the music “sensual,” “flowing,” and “nocturnal”–a testament to how love, with all of its challenges, “reroutes neural pathways.
Something in the Room She Moves gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves [Streaming]
