JULIA HOLTER LOST IN HER OWN WORLD
It’s not just on record that Julia Holter demands your full attention. During her epic, and often extraordinary, new album Aviary , it is easy to feel lost and overwhelmed by its web of lush strings, abrupt transitions, and references from antiquity. Holter is a musician with two degrees in composition and the range of techniques used on Aviary may well draw from half of those syllabuses. In person, she can be just as confounding, as her answers jump from one idea to another, linked by a logic she can’t quite explain.
Take the album’s title for example. Holter can give a straight-forward answer—“what I was thinking of was likening it
