Julia Holter PRESENTS ‘Materia’

The Seven track work is a companion LP to ‘Something In The Room She Moves’

Today, Julia Holter, one of contemporary music's most distinctive composers and songwriters, announces Materia, a seven-track companion album to her acclaimed 2024 release Something in the Room She Moves. The collection, a sequel of sorts, includes new songs written and recorded with her band in between tours, reinventions of Something’s “Materia,” and songs first conceived around the making of the 2024 record.

Something in the Room She Moveswas met with widespread acclaim upon its release in 2024, establishing the sonic and thematic world that Materia now expands upon.

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Julia Holter always knew there were multiple forms her song “Materia” could take. The tune’s dynamic, Hildegard von Bingen-inspired melody and dense modal chords stood on their own without a complex arrangement on her wondrous 2024 album Something in the Room She Moves, but she felt a lingering desire to expand the texture and stretch out the harmony.  

There has always been a welcome fluidity to Holter’s work. On those earliest records, it was the way the sound seemed to bubble up from beneath a cloudy surface. On subsequent records, she would play with song forms, performing multiple versions on the same LP, as she has now done again across Something and Materia. And there’s the way her songs have always flowed into unexpected paths, curving left when you might have expected a straight line. Materia is the most compelling and concise expression yet of this fluidity—as a composer, as a singer, as a person who experiences, feels, and wonders. At one point, what became Something in the Room She Moves was titled Materia, a name Holter once worried might sound too serious; there was always something more to it, though, and here it is.