Video: Julia Holter-In The Same Room

Julia Holter’s last album, Tragedy , attempted to mediate Greek drama into unsettling chamber pop eccentricity. Her elliptical method resulted in pop so disintegrated and dissolving that it was at once utterly like and unlike anything else. The obvious touchstones can be listed easily enough – Laurie Anderson, Gillian Welch, and a slightly more outré Kate Bush – but the music seemed to stand defiantly alone, as the song "Turn Yourself into a Work of Art" suggested. Holter creates uncannily resonant pop structures within bizarre, brilliant concepts. Holter’s new album, Ekstasis , is similarly accessible and [...]