★★★★★
"I'm blinded by the possibility," Julia Holter sings on "Feel You," her sweetly mysterious purr swooning amid harpsichord plucks, upright bass grooves and suspended strings. That lyric sums up the experience of her fourth LP, Have You in My Wilderness --10 alluring songs that feel untethered to the Earth...
- www.relix.com
2015-11-06
★★★★★
Julia Holter's previous album, 2013's
- recordcollectormag.com
2015-10-09
★★★★★
On we heard Julia Holter approaching her compositions with a keener interest in the immediacy of pop music. She was relying less on the atmospheric hazes and vaguely abstract compositions of and to set the stage for her voice, and instead steered towards a much more focused and structured style of songwriting...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2015-10-05
★★★★★
It's hard to believe the Julia Holter of 2015 also created the billowy, deconstructed pop of 2011's Tragedy. The ephemeral ambience and experiments with song and sound that formed its backdrop, as well as that of 2012's Ekstasis, have been cleaned up for her two albums on Domino Records. Loud City Song found Holter moving closer to the foreground, both in her singing and her approach to arrangement and production...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2015-10-02
★★★★★
It's hard to believe the Julia Holter of 2015 also created the billowy, deconstructed pop of 2011's Tragedy. The ephemeral ambience and experiments with song and sound that formed its backdrop, as well as that of 2012's Ekstasis, have been cleaned up for her two albums on Domino Records. Loud City Song found Holter moving closer to the foreground, both in her singing and her approach to arrangement and production...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2015-10-02
★★★★★
aying that LA-based 's fourth album is her most accessible to date is hardly a bold assertion, given that previous efforts have been based on works by those overused pop touchstones Euripides and Colette. And yet is a fascinating, immersive listen. As with her past work,most notably 2013's , Holter's music is dense with ideas, but this time her vocals are in sharper focus and her experimental urges have been reined in a little...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-09-27
★★★★★
From ' sun-kissed baroque opener "Feel You" onward, Julia Holter takes the listener on an intimate, dream-like journey, with cinematic production and smoky, organic rhythms complementing her surreal pop songs. With the reverb fog of past releases lifting, the voice of this LA-based avant-songstress has never been this clear, be it summoning her inner Nico atop the swirling, dolent strings in "How Long," or singing a melody that could have been penned by Brian Wilson during "Sea Calls Me Home...
- us5.campaign-archive1.com
2015-09-26
★★★★★
A Short Essay On Have You In My Wilderness The issue is the possibility of love, as Avivah Zornberg begins her recent book Bewilderments on wilderness and the accompanying wandering, the lonely wandering, of people in search of their desire. Desire is polyphonic, as Lacan knew, independence encircling independence, drifting amidst, a framework in which things fit and don't. In this respect, love songs are always a convergence of form and content...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2015-09-25
★★★★★
This LA artist's fourth album is a beautifully crafted set of sophisticated avant-pop with a lush, airy, imaginatively arranged sound featuring a variety of colorful instrumentation and inventive rhythms to frame her intimate vocals and cryptic lyrics, along with some of her most gorgeous pop melodies to date. 9/25/2015
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- kexp.org
2015-09-27
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