{"product_id":"julia-holter-materia","title":"Julia Holter - Materia","description":"\u003cp\u003eJulia Holter always knew that there was more to the song ‘Materia’ than what she included on her wondrous 2024 album, ‘Something in the Room She Moves’.\u003cbr\u003eShe had written the tune not long after the tours for 2018’s ‘Aviary’ concluded, and it worked well for solo shows - her voice and piano, lyrics still morphing as she played with the meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut on the new ‘Materia’, a kind of companion LP to ‘Something in the Room She Moves’, Holter has realized not one but two distinct versions of the song.\u003cbr\u003e‘Materia 2’ is a hallucinatory dream of drum machines, fretless bass and clarinet, Holter’s voice spiralling through ether alongside that of Jessika Kenney.\u003cbr\u003eAnd on ‘Materia 3’, intended as a hidden bonus track in an homage to the CD era of her youth, Holter literally slows down the take from ‘Something in the Room She Moves’.\u003cbr\u003eThe change not only emphasizes the unpredictable glory of the harmonies within but also reiterates the song’s emotional sophistication, the sense that it’s about learning how to live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Materia’ is only seven tracks long, but Holter works in nearly that many modes here.\u003cbr\u003eThere are two astounding improvisations, one where she builds a one-person ensemble of drum machines and synth lines and another where she manipulates her voice until each word seems to contain another symphony.\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet another is built from a riff that came from a demo for ‘Something in the Room She Moves’, a demo that itself is one of ‘Materia’’s most spellbinding and emotional pieces, ‘My Twin’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese seven songs show that Holter is among her generation’s most fluid writers of art-pop, moving among ideas and idioms with true exploratory aplomb.\u003cbr\u003e‘Materia’ is a kind of playground for Holter, where each distinct scene steadily coheres into a moving whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domino Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":58468260479308,"sku":"BLX-15175","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Vinyl LP Black","offer_id":58468260512076,"sku":"BLX-15176","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0841\/2738\/3884\/files\/a3809906710_10.jpg?v=1787140495","url":"https:\/\/badlands.co.uk\/products\/julia-holter-materia","provider":"Badlands","version":"1.0","type":"link"}