April 22, 2016 by LARS GOTRICH • Julia Holter’s music exists in tiny universes, colliding in torch songs and bits of cosmic cabaret that are as reverent as they are perverse. The most minute details and the plainest words suddenly form a grandiose spectacle. Last year’s Have You In My Wilderness saw Holter playing with subtle songs that unraveled more with each experience; in the NPR Music offices, those songs were given quiet and bombastic arrangements that felt close and distant at once, with a throwback to the bouncy “In The Green Wild“ from 2013’s Loud City Song.
Holter is joined by Devin Hoff (bass), Corey Fogel (drums, vocals) and Dina Maccabee (viola, vocals), and herself plays upright piano, which is a rare treat live. On tour, her keyboard allows synthetic textures to accentuate her clear voice, but when she hits the chorus in “Sea Calls Me Home“ here, Holter floors the sustain pedal and pounds atonal chords with wild abandon as she sings, “I can’t swim / It’s lucidity / So clear!“ The solo highligh
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