Born: 18 / 12 / 1984
Location: United States
Julia Shammas Holter (born December 18, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, artist, and academic, based in Los Angeles. Following three independent album productions, Holter released Tragedy as her first official studio album in 2011. Ekstasis followed in 2012. After signing with Domino Records in 2013, she released the albums Loud City Song (2013), Have You in My Wilderness (2015) and the live-in-the-studio album In the Same Room (2017). Most recently, her double album Aviary was released in 2018.
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"It had a rhapsodic effect on the crowd, who fell into a hushed reverence."
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"Focusing less on conventional songs, 'Aviary' is a 90-minute journey through ornate aural labyrinths, majestically constructed with harps, pipes and Holter's cool, crystalline piano."
"This carefully crafted entity should make hardcore fans go giddy."
"It can't be over, man. No one wants to go back to the real world yet!"
"Julia Holter possesses a contrasting depth at the heart of her work that when transmitted live can have a truly cathartic effect."
"The mood lightened and the musicians began to sweat and loosen their shoulders."
"An even more confident embrace of everything a pro studio can offer."
"Like becoming obsessed with someone who's left you."