Tagged: Julia Holter
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Recently, I watched Xavier Beauvois’ very good movie, Of Gods and Men. It’s a narrative film based on a true story about nine Trappist monks living in Tibhirine, Algeria during the mid-’90s, when radical Islamists … read more »
Video: Julia Holter & Jib Kidder, “My Baby”
Here’s a nice little cowboy lullaby from Julia Holter, which sounds a bit like the dream you might have if you fell asleep listening to Townes Van Zandt and Nico on continuous shuffle. In reality … read more »
Video: Julia Holter, “Moni Mon Amie”
Julia Holter’s video for “Moni Mon Amie,” directed by Yelena Zhelezov, plays like a soft focus office romance fantasy with both characters portrayed by Holter. Helpfully, her label RVNG pre-interprets the video in the YouTube … read more »
Video: Julia Holter, “Moni Mon Amie”
Yourstru.ly and Julia Holter teamed up for an achingly sweet, appropriately chanteuse-y live video for “Moni Mon Amie” a tender ballad off her new album Ekstasis; a record whose instrumentation is so intricately built, it’s … read more »
Live: Julia Holter at Other Music
Julia Holter’s Ekstasis is one of those other-worldly yet self-contained albums that works equally well as ambient background music as it does in a solitary, concerted headphones listen. It’s a quiet battle cry for the … read more »
By The Numbers: Julia Holter’s Ekstasis
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits and primary colors. This week, we look at Julia Holter’s Ekstasis, a gorgeous, complex and nuanced record … read more »
Stream Julia Holter’s Album Ekstatis
2012 is already such a strong year for music and Julia Holter’s new album Ekstasis is sure to be one of the year’s most innovative. Braiding together pop, folk and contemporary classical music, the album … read more »
Video: Julia Holter, “In the Same Room”
There are elements of the avant-garde ever-present in Julia Holter’s songs, but they bleed into pop. “In the Same Room” is more of the latter than the former, though it teeters. Holter sounds as though … read more »
Download Julia Holter’s Fact Mix
On Julia Holter‘s Fact mix, she juxtaposes the exhale of brake pumps into sustained singing by Laura Steenberge. That’s not too long after a snippet of Michael Jackson and just before some birthday dedications on … read more »
Daily Inspiration: Julia Holter, “Für Felix”
Satisfying the collective demand for all things Julia Holter-related, Dummy points us to this old video for an early recording of “Für Felix.” Directed three years ago by Eric Fensler, it features Holter as a … read more »
