We will first read in the title of Julia Holter’s sixth album a reference to the Beatles, but above all the look of a young mother on her little daughter. This is the theme of the album, from its orchestrations, as always with Holter, mysterious (winds, vintage synths, percussion, pastoral voices) to the texts, which go back over the cycle of life, from birth to death. dead. Less hermetic in his compositions and his taste for experimentation thanAviary (2018), this new album is luminous on its A side (concluding with Meyouan avant-garde study of timbre and elasticity of the voice), more lively and pensive on side B opening with the linear and cadenced Spinning ; the instrumental Ocean which follows parades on waves of cello, clarinet and keyboards, ending up on the banks of the magnificent Evening Mood, six delicate minutes listening like the sum of the composer’s musical influences combining jazz, chamber music, pop songs and electronic music. In concert at the Belmont on May 13.
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