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Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness

Review by James Skinner

Opportunity comes with any fresh start, and that’s what it feels like Holter is setting herself up for here»

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'​Have You In My Wilderness' is the fourth and best full length album by Los Angeles artist Julia Holter and her most intimate album yet. 'Have You in My Wilderness' was written from the heart - warm, dark and raw - and explores love, trust, and power in human relationships. While love songs are familiar in pop music, Holter manages to stay fascinatingly oblique and enigmatic, with some of the most sublime and transcendent music she has ever written. Like Holter's previous albums, 'Have You in My Wilderness' is multi-layered and texturally rich, featuring an array of electronic and acoustic instruments played by an ensemble of gifted Los Angeles musicians. 'Have You in My Wilderness' is also Holter's most sonically intimate album, with her vocals front and centre in the mix, lifted out of the layers of smeared, hazy effects. The result is striking: clear and vivid, but disarmingly personal. This album in years to come will sit next to the best work of Roy Ayers, Robert Wyatt and Syd Barrett.
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