Julia Holter presents new song, “The Laugh Is in the Eyes”

The song developed out of the demos for Holter’s recently released album, Something in the Room She Moves, and its title is a lyric from the album’s single “Spinning.”

“‘The Laugh Is in the Eyes’ came out of the Something in the Room She Moves writing sessions and it shares that album’s devotion to transformation and bodily senses,” says Holter. “There’s a loopy restlessness, a rhythmic 5ness alongside a 4ness, a circle and a square. Like in the song ‘Spinning,’ a surprise awakening awaits in the state of ‘night’—from stagnancy to the anticipation of flowers, flutes, feeling.”

Julia Holter kicks off her EU tour this Sunday, 17 November in Braga, Portugal, taking stops in Oslo, Paris, and Amsterdam, before a run of UK/IE shows in London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and Dublin, in December.