Julia Holter turns Fantasy into a danceable daydream with teeth

Julia Holter’s Fantasy arrives on 23 June as the first glimpse of Materia, described as a follow-up and companion to Something in the Room She Moves. The single reportedly took over a year to complete, which is funny because its title suggests effortless escape. Holter’s best music often lives in exactly that contradiction: dreamlike but carefully engineered, fluid but deeply composed, beautiful but never merely decorative. She describes Fantasy as dancey and conjuring, with a line about blinking at the light and hoping to survive. That detail gives the track its edge. Daydreams are not innocent when the world around them is dark. Materia already sounds like a record interested in the physical form of imagination: what fantasy weighs, how it moves, how it can comfort and frighten at the same time. Holter remains one of chamber-pop’s great architects of strange light.

Source: https://stereogum.com/2502773/julia-holter-announces-new-album-materia-hear-fantasy/music