It’s been a couple years since Julia Holter released her latest LP, Something In The Room She Moves. Now, the LA chamber pop artist is announcing its follow-up/companion album called Materia. The celestial lead single “Fantasy” is out today.
“This song of seeming willful abandon was somehow the most laborious undertaking of the entire record — it took over a year and went through various transformations — and I love that contradiction,” Holter explains. “It’s dancey, it feels to me like a kind of conjuring. And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too. I was trying to find the right sanguine tempo.”
Materia features the band from Something In The Room She Moves: Elizabeth Goodfellow on drums, Devra Hoff on fretless bass, Maia on flute, Chris Speed on saxophone and clarinet, Tashi Wada on synthesizers, and Kenny Gilmore on co-production, engineering, mixing. “Fantasy” comes with a music video directed by Dicky Bahto; watch below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “The Laugh is in The Eyes”
02 “My Lost One”
03 “Fantasy”
04 “Materia 2”
05 “Clepsydra”
06 “My Twin”
07 “Materia 3”
Materia is out 8/21 on Domino. Pre-order it here.
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