Something In The Room She Moves - Julia Holter: Review
Review by Lav: Julia Holter has been one of my favorite artists of the past 15 years by absolutely any metric. Since her very beginning, she's been dazzling with absolute whimsy weaved into almost everything she's done. In 2013 she reached a peak of accessibility with her immaculate textures weaved into irresistible wintry indie songs. But since then she's been indulging further and further into experimental flavors of instrumentation and composition. After releasing a magnum ops of experimental beauty on 2018's Aviary I was thrilled for whatever she was going to drop next. While that album is hardly an indulgence in excess, by comparison, Something is a shift towards minimal space that comes with a no less beautiful eye for detail. The singles from this album absolutely blew me away. Sun Girl came first and it also serves as the album's opener. I absolutely adore the song with its wandering pan flutes and field recordings. It comes together with this vibra...