Julia Holter Have You in My Wilderness Album Review

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In what remains of summer, the days are however long, but the nights are colder. Julia Holter's music has e'er felt right in this climate, every bit summer's newness transitions inward to autumn'south quieter, more reflective tones. "You know I honey to run away from sun," she sings in "Feel You," with a contemplative wink to an unknown companion, peradventure even a myth. (The fashion she breaks apart the syllables in "myth-o-logic-al" is, by the style, a total delight.) Running away is a theme throughout Holter'south work — from people, from loneliness, from love, from the self. Just something is darker and more vulnerable on her quaternary album, Take Yous In My Wilderness, as Holter discards the literary references of by work (Euripides, Virginia Woolf, Gigi) to draw solely from reality.

If 2013'south Loud City Vocal was Holter's rollicking cabaret-pop record, Have You In My Wilderness seeks refuge in ballads. Cole Marsden Greif Neill, who produced both Ekstasis and Loud City Vocal, places listeners next to Holter on the piano bench, equally her clean wording is glazed in hazy reverb. It's virtually hit, perhaps even unsettling, in "How Long?" when the strings drop out and she repeats, "All the people run from the horizon," as if in a trance. Or in "Night Vocal," with a string organisation somewhere betwixt the gorgeous sappiness of Burt Bacharach and the infinite sadness of Jóhann Jóhannsson, when dearest turns surreal: "Prove me at present / Show me your second confront / Show me how yous brand your second face."

Like much of her catalog, Wilderness is densely textured with electronic and acoustic sounds, from the floating "Lucette Stranded On The Island" to the ambient-jazz space-collage in "Vasquez," which sounds like a low-cardinal lost track from Herbie Hancock'southward Sextant sung by Laurie Anderson. In the latter song, Devin Hoff's bass piece of work keeps the fluid keys, dizzying percussion and scraping strings grounded, as it builds to Danny Meyer's smoove, Blade Runner-y sax solo. Information technology's like a dream from a future city, conjuring a run through foggy streets under neon lights.

Holter truly shines alongside a keyboard, as in the clip-clopping "Everytime Boots," a space-country vocal with a Can Pan Alley gallop. For Wilderness, she revisits and rearranges two songs from 2010's Alive Recordings, originally released on cassette. One time buried under dissonance and effects, the naval longing of "Body of water Calls Me Habitation" pins it as a Embankment Boys song, right downward to the smiling whistles, but when Holter sings, "I tin can't swim / It's lucidity / So clear!" she consciously pitches the hard-hitting syllables atonally against the bouncing harpsichord rhythm, reminding us that there's still some sonic perversity in her popular music. Largely stripped down to piano and vocalization, "Betsy On The Roof" becomes 1 of Holter'south own torch songs, later filled in by a cord arrangement that swells to glorious cacophony equally it all breaks autonomously.

With Have Yous In My Wilderness, Julia Holter shares a function of herself that she could only convey through references and quotes before. Both are beautiful, honest means of expression, just this intimate portrayal, however oblique and quiet and surreal, is more demanding of Holter, and of listeners. When she closes the anthology by pounding on the keys — and singing, "Tell me, why practice I feel you running away?" — she tin can finally sit nevertheless, but for how long?

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Have You in My Wilderness
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Julia Holter
Label
Domino
Released
2015

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Source: https://www.npr.org/2015/09/16/440609980/first-listen-julia-holter-have-you-in-my-wilderness

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