Julia Holter Announces Album Materia Release Release August 21

Singer-songwriter Julia Holter will release a new album, "Materia," on August 21. The seven-track project is described as a companion piece and sequel to her 2024 album, "Something In The Room She Moves."

The Los Angeles-based artist announced the album alongside the release of its lead single, "Fantasy," and an accompanying music video. The video was co-directed by Holter and Dicky Bahto. In a statement about the single, Holter said, "This song of seeming willful abandon was somehow the most laborious undertaking of the entire record-it took over a year and went through various transformations-and I love that contradiction." She described the track as "dancey" and "a kind of conjuring," noting a lyrical theme that touches on the tension between reverie and contemporary anxiety: "blink at the light and hope to survive, because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too."

"Materia" is presented as a collection of new songs written and recorded with her band between tours, alongside reworked versions of material from "Something In The Room She Moves" and songs first conceived during the making of the 2024 album. The tracklist includes the 2024 single "The Laugh Is In The Eyes,"...