Julia Holter - Aviary

Score: 8.3 

The latest release from American composer Julia Holter is her most maximalist and exhuberant approach at art pop story-telling. Tackling impressively levitative spaces in an hour and a half, the singer displays an enormous knack for tilting, almost nerve-wracking minimalist compositions while singing disparately cryptic lyrics that submerge us into medieval folklore and tradition. There's breath in Aviary, enough of it to just attack you with pulverising strength when it needs to as well as with chilling introspection when it wants to. If not the best work onto the artist's enviable career (perhaps it gets too long at times), it's the perfect proof to say this woman is a monumental force and an unbreakable, ever-morphing talent.

Tracks I like the most: I Shall Love 2, Les Jeux To You, Chaitius, Voce Simul

Tracks I like the least: In Gardens' Muteness

Artist: Julia Holter

Country: United States

Album: Aviary

Released: 26/10/2018

Genres: Art Pop, Progressive Pop, Ambient, Electronic, Experimental, Avant-Garde, Modern Classical

Length: 89:58