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Julia Holter

Aviary

    Aviary is an epic journey through what Julia Holter describes as “the cacophony of the mind in a melting world.” It’s the Los Angeles composer’s most breathtakingly expansive album yet, full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements. The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2015 record, Have You in My Wilderness, it takes as its starting point a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan: "I found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birds." It’s a scenario that sounds straight out of a horror movie, but it’s also a pretty good metaphor for life in 2018, with its endless onslaught of political scandals, freakish natural disasters, and voices shouting their desires and resentments into the void.

    “Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation,” says Holter. “I think this album is reflecting that feeling of cacophony and how one responds to it as a person - how one behaves, how one looks for love, for solace. Maybe it’s a matter of listening to and gathering the seeming madness, of forming something out of it and envisioning a future.”

    “In a lot of the songs, when I mention love, it’s about a seeking for compassion and humility in a world where it feels like empathy is always being tested,” Holter says. In Aviary’s case, that search for sweetness - that bridging of the gulf - becomes a metaphor for the creative process itself, cutting through the hierarchies of history, language, and musical form to offer something more fluid, more inclusive, more idiosyncratic.

    Aviary combines Holter’s slyly theatrical vocals and Blade Runner-inspired synth work with an enveloping palette of strings and percussion that reveals itself, and the boundless scope of her vision, over the course of fifteen songs.

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: Since her 2015 album, 'Have You In My Wilderness' (voted our #1 album of 2015) Holter has gone from strength to strength. Treading a similar path to her more recent forays into arty ambience and brittle electronics, 'Aviary' is an epic of Holter's mesmerising vocal talent, backed with an absorbing and progressive instrumental backdrop.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Turn The Light On
    2. Whether
    3. Chaitius
    4. Voce Simul
    5. Everyday Is An Emergency
    6. Another Dream
    7. I Shall Love 2
    8. Underneath The Moon
    9. Colligere
    10. In Gardens’ Muteness
    11. I Would Rather See
    12. Les Jeux To You
    13. Words I Heard
    14. I Shall Love 1
    15. Why Sad Song

    Domino is proud to launch Documents, an irregular new series of live studio recordings designed to capture the ever-evolving arrangements of our artists and their bands in high fidelity. Taking its inspiration from classic BBC sessions, each Documents release will be recorded in no more than a day or two at a world class studio in London. Or at least that’s the plan.

    The first official Documents release is In The Same Room by Julia Holter, although Domino count Villagers’ Where Have You Been All My Life? as the honorary inaugural Document in all but name.

    In The Same Room is named after a song from Holter’s 2012 album Ekstasis, and this new career-spanning collection is the fruit of two days recording by Julia and her tremendous band (Corey Fogel – drums/vocals; Dina Maccabee - viola/vocals and Devin Hoff - stand-up bass) at RAK Studios in the days after their main stage performance at Green Man Festival in Wales.

    Comprised of new arrangements of songs from all four of her studio releases to date (Tragedy, Ekstasis, Loud City Song and 2015's breakthrough Have You In My Wilderness), Holter's Domino Documents is an essential release for anyone who has witnessed her brilliant, beguiling band on tour around the world in the last five years as well as the perfect introduction to a truly important and innovative young artist.

    In the 15 months since Have You In My Wilderness, Julia has gone from strength to strength, including playing the biggest headline show of her career in the UK last month – at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire – and scoring the soundtrack for the new Miles Teller film Bleed For This.


    STAFF COMMENTS

    Sil says: 2015 Piccadilly Records record of the year gets partially revisited together with her three other albums in the form of live studio recordings. An already stunning discography is given the live treatment for maximum effect.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Horns Surrounding Me (Live At RAK)
    2. So Lillies (Live At RAK)
    3. Silhouette (Live At RAK)
    4. How Long (Live At RAK)
    5. Feel You (Live At RAK)
    6. Lucette Stranded On The Island (Live At RAK)
    7. In The Green Wild (Live At RAK)
    8. City Appearing (Live At RAK)
    9. Vasquez (Live At RAK)
    10. Betsy On The Roof (Live At RAK)
    11. Sea Calls Me Home (Live At RAK)

    Julia Holter

    Loud City Song

      The third studio album from singular artist Julia Holter.

      New album of avant-pop experimentation from the LA based singer / composer that blends influence ranging from Joni Mitchell to Arthur Russell and the poetry of Frank O’Hara into a daringly unique work as conceptually strong as it is immediately affecting.

      ‘Loud City Song’ follows, and progresses brilliantly from ‘Ekstasis’, one of last year’s most critically lauded records.

      STAFF COMMENTS

      Andy says: Julia Holter's Domino Records debut fittingly feels like the start of something new, honing as it does, everything that's special about her. Dark and dreamy.

      TRACK LISTING

      World
      Maxim’s I
      Horns Surrounding Me
      In The Green Wild
      Hello Stranger
      Maxim’s II
      He’s Running Through My Eyes
      This Is A True Heart
      City Appearing


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