Bleep

If Julia Holter's previous album Aviary was a larger than life examination of the world, her latest work paints a fresco of life itself. Something in the Room She Moves travels further into Holter's multitemporal stream of eclecticism, melting dream pop and free improvisation into a warm splendour paced with consideration. Joyfully chaotic arrangements shift effortlessly into golden choruses as Holter toys with language, embedding curious complexity into catchy pop hooks. She soars amid the dazzle of jazz-adjacent sax and hypnotic pulsing rhythm on ‘Spinning’, all components in an illuminated dance while she sings, “I'm in the precious belonging of day”