Julia Holter announces new album, Something in the Room She Moves

“Spinning” is the album’s incantatory centrepiece; “What is delicious and what is omniscient?” she sings, “What is the circular magic I’m visiting?” Holter says, “It’s about being in the passionate state of making something: being in that moment, and what is that moment?”

"Spinning" comes accompanied by a video directed by Giraffe Studios, and follows previous single, "Sun Girl" – Holter's first release in five years.

The title Something in the Room She Moves came to Holter spontaneously as she was naming the Logic project file for an early demo of what would become the album’s title track on her computer for the first time. Coincidentally, a few months later, she found herself mesmerized by the eight-hour Beatles documentary Get Back in 2021. Her titular phrase flips the gaze of the Beatles lyrics (“Something in the way she moves…”), where the woman is no longer passively observed, but actively augmenting space.

After a string of dream pop albums that established her searching voice in independent music – from 2012 breakthrough Ekstasis to Loud City Song and Have You in My Wilderness – Holter released the experimental Aviary in 2018. Since then, she has scored films such as Never Rarely Sometimes Always, performed a commissioned live score for The Passion of Joan of Arc with the Chorus of Opera North, and collaborated with her partner, the musician Tashi Wada, who plays synth and bagpipes on her new album.

Julia Holter has confirmed a European tour including London’s EartH Theatre on 9 April; additionally, fans can pre-order Something in the Room She Moves for a chance to hear the album in full and in Dolby Atmos surround sound at a private London location on 1 February alongside a Q&A with Julia Holter.

Tracklist:

1. Sun Girl
2. These Morning
3. Something in the Room She Moves
4. Materia
5. Meyou
6. Spinning
7. Ocean
8. Evening Mood
9. Talking to the Whisper
10. Who Brings Me