Julia Holter
Something in the Room She Moves
60--90点相当
When Los Angeles musician Julia Holter released her ninth solo album, Aviary, in 2018, it felt like its own divine blast of light—something we should never expect to see duplicated by this artist or any other. Building upon the critically-beloved chamber pop of 2013’s Loud City Song and 2015’s Have You In My Wilderness, it arrived as a dense, grandiose avant-pop statement whose abstractions made it an increasingly rewarding album to return to in subsequent years. When Holter and a wall of choral voices proclaim “I shall love” like a monastic chant in the first part of the song of the same name, it felt more like a demand from a deity than a confession from an earthbound songwriter. “That is all, that is all,” Holter says at the opening of the more conventional “I Shall Love 2.” “There is nothing else.” In the surrealistic world Aviary builds, love is not so much a partnership but the claiming of territory or an impenetrable force blocking you out. As some other famous songwriting pair put it, “Love is all, love is you”—and here, it devours everything in its path.
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