8.1
Avg Score
9
Opinions
#1,698
All Time
10
Tracks
“Something in the Room She Moves, Julia Holter’s 6th record, thematically revolves around life and death. Written after the birth of her daughter and dedicated to the memory of her young nephew who recently passed away, it sonically incorporates these paradoxical forces seamlessly. There’s an almost unbearable lightness to her best work and Something in the Room She Moves has that in spades. Often”
“The LA musician's latest processes difficult life changes while juggling them with gratitude for new beginnings, but does so in a manner that mirrors how these conflicts really feel, creating something evocative and challenging even in its more muted turns.”
“Turning toward improvisation and meditative minimalism, the Los Angeles singer and songwriter’s latest album seeks a release from rational thought. It sounds fluid, sonorous, and free.”
“One of the most compelling features of Julia Holter's past records is their beautiful contrivance. A staple of Holter's work is a consistent focus on the artifice of art, suffusing her compositions with aesthetic devices borrowed from film, theatre and literature. The benefit of this approach is that Holter's songs are decorated with a rich tapestry of narrative, conceptual and instrumental flouri”
“Celebrated LA-based composer Julia Holter’s last outing, 2018’s 90-minute Aviary, tried to reproduce the cognitive dissonance of living in recent times, harnessing medieval Occitan, bagpipes and a polyphony of other instruments to capture the restlessness of the mind. Six years on, Something in the Room She Moves is no less ambitious in its intent – to encapsulate presence and transformation – but”
