Julia Holter – Evening Mood
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter releases her new single “Evening Mood” today ahead of her forthcoming sixth studio album Something in the Room She Moves, out March 22nd on Domino.
With “Evening Mood,” Holter had in mind invoking the love hormone oxytocin, with Dev Hoff’s portamento fretless bass lines and Beth Goodfellow’s soft mallet heartbeat-like drums as foundation. Over the heavily-filtered rhythm section, an array of sparkling voices swim: Holter’s gliding vocals, Chris Speed’s soaring birdlike clarinet, and bright Prophet pads by Tashi Wada. The “underwater” production style was informed by a heavy dose of Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo, her daughter’s favorite movie at the time, about a fish that turns into a little girl. “I was inspired by the transformability of creatures, and how this malleability works alongside our capacity for love. I wanted everything to feel very liquid,” she says of the song, which features a “heavily filtered ultrasound heartbeat” sent through a phaser. “I wanted it to sound like it was inside the body.”
“Evening Mood” comes via a video by Dicky Bahto featuring dancer Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta.
TOUR DATES
UK/EU
Apr 7 – Nantes, FR @ Nantes Variations Festival
Apr 9 – London, UK @ Earth
Apr 10 – Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode, BE @ Orangerie Du Jardin Botanique
Apr 12 – Berlin, DE @ Colosseum
NORTH AMERICA
May 3 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey
May 4 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
May 6 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
May 7 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
May 10 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
May 11 – Chicago, IL @ Outset
May 13 – Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall
May 14 – Montreal, QC @ Le Belmont
May 15 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
May 17 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
May 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
May 19 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
May 21 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
May 22 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Purgatory)
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