Enigmatic art-pop wizard Julia Holter is back with "Sun Girl," her first piece of new solo music since releasing Aviary in 2018.
"Sun Girl" is a heavy-lidded, kaleidoscopic piece of unwieldy pop music, coloured by field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums, fretless bass and glittering swipes of flute. It somewhat recalls the shadowy drift of Holter's earlier work, though it's been suffused with hi-def light.
"Place me, drag me, move me, Sun Girl," Holter sings. In a statement, she described the song as "being brought out of my comfort zone — into the unknown, playfulness and chaos."
Since releasing Aviary in 2018, Holter composed the score for Eliza Hittman's film Never Rarely Sometimes Always in 2020, and recently wrote and performed a new live soundtrack to the 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc. In 2021, she appeared on Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined.
"Sun Girl" comes attached to a colourful, trippy video by artist and animator Tammy Nguyễn. Check it out below.
"Sun Girl" is a heavy-lidded, kaleidoscopic piece of unwieldy pop music, coloured by field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums, fretless bass and glittering swipes of flute. It somewhat recalls the shadowy drift of Holter's earlier work, though it's been suffused with hi-def light.
"Place me, drag me, move me, Sun Girl," Holter sings. In a statement, she described the song as "being brought out of my comfort zone — into the unknown, playfulness and chaos."
Since releasing Aviary in 2018, Holter composed the score for Eliza Hittman's film Never Rarely Sometimes Always in 2020, and recently wrote and performed a new live soundtrack to the 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc. In 2021, she appeared on Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined.
"Sun Girl" comes attached to a colourful, trippy video by artist and animator Tammy Nguyễn. Check it out below.
