Julia Holter

Announces new album Something in the Room She Moves
out March 22nd
Releases new single “Spinning” – watch the video here
Live dates confirmed including London’s EartH + London playback event

Today Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter announces her sixth studio album Something in the Room She Moves, out March 22nd on Domino. Holter’s past work has often explored memory and dreamlike future, but her latest album resides more in presence: “There’s a corporeal focus, inspired by the complexity and transformability of our bodies,” she 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 that’s fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the body’s internal sound world,” Holter says of herflowing harmonic universe.

Holter shares her new single “Spinning” alongside today’s announcement. “Spinning” is the album’s incantatory centerpiece; “What is delicious and what is omniscient?” she sings, “What is the circular magic I’m visiting?” Holter says, “It’s about being in the passionate state of making something: being in that moment, and what is that moment?”

“Spinning” comes via a video directed by Giraffe Studios.

Stream “Spinning” here.
Watch the “Spinning” video here.

“Spinning” follows the previously released single “Sun Girl,” hailed as “a blissed-out blur, a meandering, neo-psychedelic ramble” (New York Times), “a swirling piece of psychedelia that smears the boundary between illusion and reality” (Pitchfork), and a “melted kaleidoscope of a song” (The Guardian).

Recent years brought about for Julia Holter an existential focus on human connection, amid the staggering change that came with the death of loved ones (including her young nephew, to whom the album is dedicated) and the birth of her daughter. On Something in the Room She Moves, Holter vividly processes the complexity, gravity, and awe of this confluence of experience. She calls the music “sensual,” “flowing,” and “nocturnal” - a testament to how love, with all of its challenges, “reroutes neural pathways.” The cover art by Holter’s childhood friend, artist Christina Quarles, highlights the multiplicity of intimate connection: are the figures embracing or in battle?

The titleSomething in the Room She Movescame to Holter spontaneously as she was naming the Logic project file for an early demo of what would become the album’s title track on her computer for the first time. Coincidentally, a few months later, she found herself mesmerized by the eight-hour Beatles documentaryGet Backin 2021. Her titular phrase flips the gaze of the Beatles lyrics (“Something in the way she moves…”); the woman is no longer passively observed, but actively augmenting space. Holter has loved the Beatles since childhood, but sees the title less as a tribute than as a semi-surreal bit of automatic writing from her subconscious. (She had been singing Beatles tunes to her daughter at night.)

After a string of dream pop albums that established her searching voice in independent music—from 2012 breakthroughEkstasistoLoud City SongandHave You in My Wilderness—Holter released the sprawling and thrillingly experimentalAviaryin 2018. Since then, she has scored films likeNever Rarely Sometimes Always,performed a commissioned live score forThe Passion of Joan of Arcwith the Chorus of Opera North, and collaborated with her partner, the musician Tashi Wada, who plays synth and bagpipes on her new album.Something in the Room She Movesis a remarkable progression in Holter’s oeuvre, synthesizing her free, improvisatory energy with her signature eloquence.

*****

Julia Holter has confirmed a European tour for April includingLondon’s EartH Theatre; additionally, fans can pre-orderSomething in the Room She Movesfor a chance to hear the album in full and inDolby Atmos surround soundat a private London location on February 1st alongside a Q&A with Julia Holter. Limited space available, winners will be informed with RSVP via email. Available to UK pre-orders only.

Julia Holter annonces new album 'Something in the Room She Moves'

M'Grasker Drop Trippy & Amorous Track New Single "Kiss & Smoke Weed"

@ shares 'Webcrawler' + UK Tour Dates