| Holter, Julia / Loud City Song |
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| Album: | Loud City Song | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Holter, Julia | Added: | Aug 2013 | |
| Label: | Domino Recording Company | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-09-01 | Pull Date: | 2013-11-03 |
| Week Ending: | Nov 3 | Oct 20 | Oct 13 | Oct 6 | Sep 29 | Sep 15 | Sep 8 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 08, 2019: | Magnetized Toner: With Guest DJ mc2 Maxim's I | 4. | Nov 05, 2016: | Life Aquatic In The Green Wild | |
| 2. | Aug 12, 2017: | night tapes 13 Hello Stranger | 5. | Apr 17, 2015: | A-philiac This Is A True Heart, Hello Stranger | |
| 3. | Nov 27, 2016: | Life Aquatic In The Green Wild | 6. | Mar 12, 2015: | A Visit From Drum World |
| Album Review |
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| awyeh Reviewed 2013-08-28 | ||
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Experimental avant-pop. This is the album that catches that listener-on-scan-in-the-car's ear and gets them to keep listening. Really cool, lush stuff that strikes a great mix between fleshed-out and minimalistic. Holter has an academic background, and while her music reflects that, its academic qualities are perfectly balanced with poppy flourishes; it's incredibly accessible (in a good way, you elitists). Huge variety of instrumentation (brass, strings, et al) and effects; she goes way beyond the "looping fem vox and a synth" that she's often compared to (even if that is a great ~genre). Great voice. Cinematic in scope and never too focused on what's trendy, drawing influences from many decades. Vocals very organic but abstract lyrics sometimes produce a childlike or even ahuman quality; despite this, they rarely feel awkward. Fairly noir, lightly tropicalia here and there. RIYL: Avant-pop, Jazz-pop, Julianna Barwick, Joanna Newsom, Mirroring 1 (4:53) A cappella with intensifying synths second half, noir fem vox with ambient sounds, richer instrumentation joins second half, Rear Window vibe *2 (6:07) Crashing cymbal intro, reverberating synths create a dazed out waltzy effect, alternate then join in with atmospheric, cinematic strings and vox *3 (4:47) Running sounds, panting open, noiry synths; horns join in, rich sound, intensifies in layers until halfway through **4 (4:08) Jazzy-pop intro w/fable-esque vox; second half is pure pop perfection *5 (6:17) Cover of Barbara Lewis's classic soul-pop "Hello Stranger;" Holter makes it her own. Quiet synthy intro w/ birds; pretty, whispery, strings + cymbals 6 (5:28) Intensified reprise of 2, frantic noir, slow section, return to frantic, big brass 7 (2:19) Quiet, piano, ghostly vox *8 (3:31) Fuzzy intro, jazzy, experimental pop; the catchiest upbeat thing appropriate for late night radio 9 (7:16) Slow, rainy, closing time, nice double bass; builds slowly | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | World | 5. | Hello Stranger | |||
| 2. | Maxim's I | 6. | Maxim's Ii | |||
| 3. | Horns Surrounding Me | 7. | He's Running Through My Eyes | |||
| 4. | In The Green Wild | 8. | This Is A True Heart | |||
| 9. | City Appearing | |||||