Julia Holter shares brand new song "The Laugh Is in the Eyes" + upcoming UK dates
Julia Holter
Shares new song “The Laugh Is in the Eyes” – stream here
Touring UK next month
Something in the Room She Moves out now
Photo credit: Camille Blake
Praise for Something in the Room She Moves:
“It draws comparison with two peculiarly English releases, Kate Bush’s The Dreaming and Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom; like them, there is something about this music that is warming, aqueous, immersive and endlessly engaging” Uncut Album of the Month 9/10
“Julia Holter is as beautifully elusive as ever” Mojo 4*
“Gorgeous, neoclassical chamber pop” The Independent
“A layered and heartfelt exploration of the sublime everyday”The Quietus
“With her lavish, nocturnal new album Something in the Room She Moves, Julia Holter embraces the joy and reward of living in the moment” The Line of Best Fit
“It’s structurally complex, utterly mesmeric and is the distinct work of an unparalleled songwriting experimentalist” Loud & Quiet 9/10
“Sprawling, luminous chamber pop that employs mantras and childlike bliss as to celebrate the glory of the present moment” RA
“Holter has always managed – not unlike Björk, though in another register – to make very inventive music accessible, never shy of seducing her audience, and yet true to her avant-garde muse.” The Arts Desk 4*
“The sheer otherworldly beauty stops you in your tracks” Electronic Sound
Today Los Angeles singer, songwriter, and composer Julia Holter shares her new song “The Laugh Is in the Eyes.” The song developed out of the demos for Holter’s 2024 LP Something in the Room She Moves, and its title is a lyric from the album’s enchanting single “Spinning.”
“‘The Laugh Is in the Eyes’ came out of the Something in the Room She Moves writing sessions and it shares that album’s devotion to transformation and bodily senses,” says Holter. “There’s a loopy restlessness, a rhythmic 5ness alongside a 4ness, a circle and a square. Like in the song ‘Spinning,’ a surprise awakening awaits in the state of ‘night’—from stagnancy to the anticipation of flowers, flutes, feeling.”
“The Laugh Is in the Eyes” features many of the same musicians from Something in the Room She Moves, including Elizabeth Goodfellow (percussion), Devra Hoff (fretless bass), Chris Speed (clarinet), and Tashi Wada (synth), co-producer and engineer Kenny Gilmore, and mastering engineer Heba Kadry.
Listen to “The Laugh Is in the Eyes” here.
Julia Holter’s latest full-length Something in the Room She Moves was released earlier this year to widespread critical acclaim from outlets including NPR, who hailed her as “our most ambitious art-pop experimentalist” and Stereogum, who called the album “all amorphous, billowing string arrangements and fluting, echoey calls that swirl into some of the most straight-up gorgeous pieces that Holter has ever composed.”
Julia Holter kicks off her EU/UK tour this Sunday, November 17th in Braga, Portugal. All dates are below and tickets are available at juliaholter.com.
Upcoming tour dates
17th November - Gente Sentada, Braga
19th November - Teatro Principal, San Sebastian
20th November - Festival Mileni, Madrid
21st November - Festival Mileni, Barcelona
22nd November - Ram Club, Valencia
24th November - Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen
26th November – Parkteatret, Oslo
27th November – Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm
29th November – Opderschmelz, Luxembourg
1st December – Maroquinerie, Paris
2nd December – Zonnehuis, Amsterdam
3rd December - Ha Concerts, Gent
5th December - Islington Assembly Hall, London
6th December – Lantern, Bristol
7th December - Band on Wall, Manchester
9th December - St. Luke’s, Glasgow
11th December - Button Factory, Dublin
Something in the Room She Moves is available to buy on DomMart-edition clear vinyl with a doubled sided poster/lyric sheet and signed photo, as well as indies-edition Calder Red vinyl, LP, CD and digitally. Buy: DomMart | Digital
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