JULIA HOLTER
Announces Australian Tour
New Album AVIARY Out Now
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On the day Julia Holter’s brilliant and timely new album Aviary is released, the splendrous Los Angeles composer announces an Australian tour.
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JULIA HOLTER TOUR DATES:
PERTH: Wednesday January 16 @ The Rosemount. Presented by Cool Perth Nights. Tickets on sale now.
LAUNCESTON: Friday January 18 @ MONA FOMA. Tickets & info here.
SYDNEY: Sunday January 20 @ Sydney Festival. Tickets & info here.
MELBOURNE: Monday January 21 @ Melbourne Recital Centre. Tickets & info here.
BRISBANE: Tuesday January 22 @ The Tivoli. Tickets on sale now.
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Mistletone proudly presents the return of Julia Holter with her stunning ensemble, hot on the heels of her incredible new album, Aviary (out today on Domino; listen/buy here).
Aviary is an epic journey through what Los Angeles composer Julia Holter describes as “the cacophony of the mind in a melting world.” It’s her most breathtakingly expansive album yet, full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements.
“While this album might be informed by present-day horror, it is not merely a window onto those events. Out of the rubble of that opening track, Holter builds an absolute castle of an album; Aviary is a fortress for listeners – a refuge awaits if you can negotiate its drawbridge of harmony and dissonance”
– THE QUIETUS LEAD REVIEW
The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2015 record, Have You in My Wilderness, it takes as its starting point a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan: “I found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birds.” It’s a scenario that sounds straight out of a horror movie, but it’s also a pretty good metaphor for life in 2018, with its endless onslaught of political scandals, freakish natural disasters, and voices shouting their desires and resentments into the void.
“Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it’s hard to find one’s foundation,” says Holter. “I think this album is reflecting that feeling of cacophony and how one responds to it as a person – how one behaves, how one looks for love, for solace. Maybe it’s a matter of listening to and gathering the seeming madness, of forming something out of it and envisioning a future.”
Watch the video directed by Dicky Bahto below for Aviary’s lead track, which ‘I Shall Love 2’ echoes that hope: “I am in love… There is nothing else“.
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“In a lot of the songs, when I mention love, it’s about a seeking for compassion and humility in a world where it feels like empathy is always being tested,” Holter says. In Aviary’s case, that search for sweetness – that bridging of the gulf – becomes a metaphor for the creative process itself, cutting through the hierarchies of history, language, and musical form to offer something more fluid, more inclusive, more idiosyncratic.
Aviary, executive produced by Cole MGN and produced by Holter and Kenny Gilmore, combines Holter’s slyly theatrical vocals and Blade Runner-inspired synth work with an enveloping palette of strings and percussion that reveals itself, and the boundless scope of her vision, over the course of fifteen songs. Holter was joined by Corey Fogel (percussion), Devin Hoff (bass), Dina Maccabee (violin, viola, vocals), Sarah Belle Reid (trumpet), Andrew Tholl (violin), and Tashi Wada (synth, bagpipes).
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