{"id":514522,"date":"2026-06-23T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514522\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:22:09","slug":"julia-holter-announces-new-album-materia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514522\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Holter Announces New Album Materia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29994-julia-holter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Holter<\/a> isn\u2019t finished with the themes of her 2024 LP <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/julia-holter-something-in-the-room-she-moves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Something in the Room She Moves<\/a> just yet. The art-pop composer and singer-songwriter revealed she\u2019s got a new album on the way (<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/juliaholter.ffm.to\/materia\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/juliaholter.ffm.to\/materia&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/juliaholter.ffm.to\/materia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Materia<\/a>, out August 21 via Domino) that functions as a companion record. Check out the single \u201cFantasy\u201d and its Dicky Bahto-directed video below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis song of seeming willful abandon was somehow the most laborious undertaking of the entire record\u2014it took over a year and went through various transformations\u2014and I love that contradiction,\u201d Holter said in a statement about \u201cFantasy.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s dance-y, it feels to me like a kind of conjuring. And amidst the momentum of reverie, there\u2019s the line \u2018Blink at the light and hope to survive,\u2019 because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too. I was trying to find the right sanguine tempo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In press materials, Materia is described as a collection of new songs written and recorded with Holter\u2019s band between tours, including multiple reinventions of the Something in the Room She Moves cut \u201cMateria,\u201d along with a few tracks conceived around the making of that album. One of those songs, \u201cMy Twin,\u201d is a 10-minute solo improvisation by Holter.<\/p>\n<p>Read about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/julia-holter-spinning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spinning<\/a>\u201d from Something in the Room She Moves in <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/best-songs-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 100 Best Songs of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Materia:<br \/>01 The Laugh is in The Eyes<br \/>02 My Lost One<br \/>03 Fantasy<br \/>04 Materia 2<br \/>05 Clepsydra<br \/>06 My Twin<br \/>07 Materia 3<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Julia Holter Photography Adult Person Face Head Portrait Bed Furniture Bedroom Indoors and Room\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/juliaholter_MATERIA_coverart_3000x3000_RGB.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Holter isn\u2019t finished with the themes of her 2024 LP Something in the Room She Moves just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,1206,644],"class_list":["post-514522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-new-releases","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}