Genres: Alternative/Indie Rock Ambient Experimental Electronic
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Review: California singer songwriter Julia Holter is three albums in and
improving on each outing. "Loud City Song" is the album where she paints
a much more accessible musical canvass. This does not diminish the fact
that this is a complex and often celestial work which demonstrates a
sharp musical mind at work. Those who own her previous albums
respectively "Tragedy" and "Eckstasis" will generally approve of this
new one since it rekindles some of the best moments contained in those
records and develops them further. In doing so she has not lost her
cutting edge and songs like the fragmentary avant garde jazz of "Maxim's
II" will still leave the listener scratching their head and wondering
what chemical aids were its source inspiration.