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- Summary: The sixth full-length release for the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Julia Holter was influenced in part by the birth of her daughter.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 29, 2024The results are astoundingly beautiful, like a field recording taken from some uncharted corner of the earth. Elsewhere, the climax at the end of the ominous "Talking To The Whisper" beggars belief, it's a traffic jam of cascading keys, sporadic drumming, serpentine brass and more, an explosion of chaotic sound to conclude one of her best songs ever.
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Mar 20, 2024By the time we reach closing track Who Brings Me the journey through the cloudscape is complete, sealing an experience that is equal parts head and heart music. It’s an absorbing, cohesive listen that casts fresh light on familiar structures and melds them into new and appealing shapes.
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Apr 4, 2024This is an achingly human journey into the vast mischievous subconscious, never trying to manipulate how you should feel.
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MojoMar 20, 2024Beautifully elusive. [Apr 2024., p.85]
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Mar 22, 2024Whether it's the caressing connectedness of "Evening Mood" or the air of pensive devotion on "Who Brings Me," this emotional immediacy makes Something in the Room She Moves an exciting and affecting addition to Holter's body of work.
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Apr 1, 2024Even if she is done splaying out the furthest boundaries of her sound, one can hardly complain that she's doubling down on the qualities she's always excelled at when she sounds as refreshed and refreshing as she does here.
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Mar 25, 2024A plethora of found sounds and jazz inflections keep everything compelling. But the hovering, sustained and gliding elements miss the brave sensory overload of Aviary and the pop nous of Wilderness. The best track is the simplest: Meyou, a warped, minimal vocal meditation.