Julia Holter‘s brilliant 2018 LP Aviary is out now on Domino Records. Described as a journey through “the cacophony of the mind in a melting world,” the 15-track album embraces a wide palette of musical styles and it features some of Holter’s most thrilling arrangements. This week the musician released a new video for the track “Whether.” Dicky Bahto, who also directed videos for the album tracks “Words I Heard” and “I Shall Love 2,” returns to handle the visual honors here. Indulging his love for “hand-worked darkroom techniques,” Bahto has this to say about his new video:
“Exposing 16mm film prepared with cyanotype solution to the light of the sun on my balcony every afternoon over a couple of weeks, making the work in small pieces, meant that as the fires in Southern California darkened the sky with smoke, my exposures took increasingly long amounts of time to get images ever more faint. Julia wanted me to share this anecdote, since it fits the dystopian theme of the song, which is about the world collapsing around us because of climate change.”
Julia Holter is currently touring Europe and will return in 2019 for a series of North American dates. You can check out her upcoming tour schedule after the YouTube embed below…
Julia Holter Live 2018/19:
27th Nov – Schauspiel, Bochum, Germany
28th Nov – De Roma, Antwerp
30th Nov – Funkhaus, Berlin
1st Dec – Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
2nd Dec – Brotfabrik, Frankfurt
3rd Dec – Kammerspiele, Munich
5th Dec – Petit Bain, Paris
6th Dec – Gorilla, Manchester
7th Dec – Fiddlers, Bristol
8th Dec – Button Factory, Dublin
10th Dec – Summerhall, Edinburgh
11th Dec – Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds
12th Dec – Hackney Arts Centre, London
2019
16th Jan – The Rosemont, Perth
18th Jan – Mona Foma Festival, Tasmania
20th Jan – Sydney Festival, Sydney
21st Jan – Melbourne Recital, Melbourne
22nd Jan – The Tivoli, Brisbane
24th Jan – The Tuning Fork, Auckland
19th Feb – U Street Music Hall, Washington DC
20th Feb – Underground Arts, Philadelphia
22nd Feb – Warsaw, New York
23rd Feb – Brighton Music Hall, Boston
24th Feb – La Sala Rossa, Montreal
26th Feb – The Great Hall, Toronto
27th Feb – El Club, Detroit
28th Feb – Thalia Hall, Chicago
1st Mar – Turf Club, St. Paul
4th Mar – Imperial, Vancouver
5th Mar – Doug Fir, Portland
6th Mar – Neumos, Seattle
8th Mar – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
9th Mar – Lodge Room, Los Angeles
