Is this pop music? Suddenly, with a whisper, Julia Holter's voice whisks us off to a kind of cabaret: more urbane, but still pretty crazy – instruments on fire, keyboards gone wrong, and all the while with rampant, obsessive polyphony! Just where are we exactly? The next number won't help you at all in figuring it out, because all of a sudden we're in a Habanera dream with Voce Simul. These tracks seem to change like the wind in terms of structure, like clouds filled with crazy and beautiful contrasts which she’d never thought of before.Ĭhaitius starts off like an Elizabethan In Nomine with various modern reorchestrations suddenly superimposed upon it. Aviary, a very odd album, takes us on a breathless tour through all the important influences that have fed Julia Holter's creativity, from Renaissance polyphony and minimalism to modern and classical orchestration. Five years later, Holter is done striving: she wants to have fun.
She succeeded in re-finding this logic with 2013's Loud City Song which remains the shortest and most balanced of her albums. Ekstasis, with its superb opening number ( Marienbad), was an attempt to restore some structural logic to a writing style that was moving more towards explorations of the unknown. Her first album, Tragedy, painted pictures of ethereal lands with infinite horizons. Julia Holter's passion? Shocking herself and shocking us.
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