A Feast of Beast

 Julia Holter - Maria + 2HB

Not really sure why the digital track was released a year ago and it took this long for the clearly intended Ltd 7” to follow?  Meh here it is, and its up for order from Boomkat here.  I usually try to order direct from labels whenever possible, but Human Ear Music has possibly the most frustrating site ever to navigate, and I’m at a loss where the hell to find the their store products and this 7”?!?

Regardless, the gradated pink vinyl makes for one of the nicest 7”s I’ve ever seen.  This should hold you over until her the next full length from Julia Holter comes out August 20th on Dead Oceans.

Julia Holter - Betsy On The Roof (Echo Manor version)

Check out one of two new non-album tracks from the upcoming and very limited to 250 copies Goddess Eyes 12” to accompany the re-release of Ekstasis on Domino. 

Julia Holter - Goddess Eyes II

What a fantastically strange and beautiful video to accompany Julia’s music.  It’s the kind of thing that is both uniquely surprising, and yet exactly what I would’ve expected from her creative mind.  She just got signed to Domino, and her sophomore album Ekstasis will be receiving a re-release on heavyweight vinyl if you missed it the first time around.  

Likely more exciting to those of us already clutching our Julia Holter records, they’ll also be a new Goddess Eyes 12” which has two non-LP tracks on it.  Included on the 12” is a new rendition of Goddess Eyes plus a new studio recording of Betsy On the Roof, both performed with musicians Christopher Votek and Corey Fogel. The tracks were recorded by Votek at his Echo Manor studio in Los Angeles last month.

Julia Holter - Goddess Eyes 12” is up for pre-orde from Domino UK here and is super Ltd to only 250 copies for the UK.  Snatch it up if you’re a Julia junkie like me.  

Julia Holter and Nite Jewel - What We See

Does anyone else miss the sound of pre-One Second of Love Nite Jewel? It’s not that I dislike the new LP (filled with radio ready hit tracks), I just don’t like it nearly as much as earlier works like, Good Evening.  While this may only be one track recorded together, Julia’s a good influence on their direction of sound, and the film work is exceptional to boot. 

Love those surreal moving through blades of grass shots. 

Julia Holter - I Would Rather See

Brand new unreleased track from The Ad Hoc Comp, a kickstarter donor reward.

Julia Holter’s sophomore record Ekstasis has continued to be on constant repeat here at Dread Fort.  Always looking for more JH to get my fix.  You can still order Ekstasis on beautiful heavy 2XLP vinyl double gatefold from rvng Intl. here

Julia Holter & Jib Kidder - My Baby

yvynyl:

Julia lured me in, but this cat Jib is bar-none. Wow.

On exactly the same page as yvynyl, can’t seem to get enough of Julia these days, but Jib, damn… 

Jib Kidder - Steal Guitars LP is out on wax from State Rights Records here

Julia Holter - Moni Mon Amie

The video for “Moni Mon Amie” interprets the song as a lyrical appeal to the unattainable other, and a conversation that’s being had with oneself. The longing transforms the perception of the everyday, turning each moment into a poetic landscape in which the miniature and the gigantic become interchangeable. Julia plays the subject and the object of desire in this video. Yelena Zhelezov, March 2012

Still obsessing over the new Julia Holter 2XLP Ekstasis.  And rightly so.  You can still grab the wax from RVNG Intl. here.

Julia Holter - Moni Mon Amie

Julia Holter - Our Sorrows

One of the artists most recently on constant repeat and for good reason.  Julia Holter’s Ekstasis LP is a beautiful followup to the super OOP Tragedy LP.  Grab Ekstasis on vinyl from rvng Intl. here

Julia Holter - In The Same Room

Cannot cannot cannot wait for this LP to drop.

Julia Holter - In The Same Room

If you’ve been obsessing on Julia Holter of late as much as I have, then you should know that her latest 2XLP, Ekstasis, has finally gone on sale over at RVNG Intl.  Her previous release, the extremely OOP Tradegy LP sold out twice for a total of 800 copies, and there are still people clamoring for a third repress, with copies going on discogs for $100-$150. 

So I guess what I’m saying is if you want a copy act quick, not sure on the press count with this one, but I’m assuming maybe in the 500-1000 range.  I got lucky on the Tragedy LP and picked one up after the sell out for a reasonable price.

Also side note: gvb reposted a collaborative track with Julia Holter and Linda Perhacs fromlast April featured in the LA Times.  If ever there was a match mad in heaven, it would be these two playing together.  A whole album worth of collaboration would be a dream.

Julia Holter - Ekstasis 2XLP is available to pre-order here

Julia Holter - Marienbad

I was so late in the game coming around to my first listen to Julia Holter’s masterpiece Tragedy LP, and let me tell you master-fucking-piece is no exaggeration.  It was simply one of those cases that I kept seeing her album on everyones 2011 year end lists, and sometimes seeing that much buzz turns me off to something.  Well sir there is a damn good reason why its on everyone’s year end list. Fucking brilliant.

You might think that basing your album composition around a Greek play, Hippolytus, would spell certain grandiose death as your debut LP.  Not even slightly.  The result is a beautiful full piece of composition, which necessitates listening from beginning to end through.  Trust me if listening to singles is your thing, this ain’t your album.  But with a little patience, and I stress little cause its only 40min srsly, this album creates a whole new world of soundscape.  I feel privileged, like I’m secretly listening into someones conversation.  Then suddenly its so upbeat I almost wanna dance, and back down.  There are movements and the range displayed here is most impressive of all.  At times there is a serious classical sound like Julianna Barwick, then ambient, then full on snyths and electronic.  

Just treat yourself and listen to this once through.

I guess there’s a reason why its twice sold out now from Leaving Records, with a legion of people commenting to please repress again on the label release page.  First pressing was Ltd to 300 copies on custom metallic silver jackets designed by: Jesselisa Moretti, 1st repress was identical and Ltd to 500 copies.

I’m too sucked into this one, I shelled out for a copy at a semi-reasonable price, but srsly theres kids on discogs trying to rake in like $100 for a copy.  BS.

If that is too expensive taste for you, you can grab a long playing c54 cassette of Live Recordings from NNA Tapes for only $7 clams here.

NNA Tapes says about it: So Cal artist Julia Holter’s latest cassette is a very personal collection of dreamy home-recording style pop ballads. Lush piano and synthesizer instrumentation meld with Holter’s ethereal vocals in cinematic and melancholy arrangements.

Lastly Julia HotlerEkstasis coming out on RVNG Intl. on March 8th 2012, which you can read more about here.   The track, Marienbad, in the video is the first single from it.  Keep an eye out for that one, likely it’ll sell out like hot cakes as well.

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Julia Holter - Marienbad

For fans of Juliana Barwick, here’s another release from Julia Holter.  Ethereal, dreamy, almost classical sounds blending into something beautiful.  This track comes from apparently a full length 2XLP called Ekstasis soon to be released via RVNG Intl.

Juliana Barwick did a collaborative 12” with Ikue Mori on the same label earlier this year.