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Julia Holter's latest sheds some light on a very modern concern: the celebrity-obsessed media and its incessant reportage. Although there are no direct odes to Kim Kardashian's baby weight or the Mail Online sidebar, Holter certainly gives an abstract, jazz-electro interpretation of that world. Horns Surrounding Me features breathless panting as if running from the paparazzi, while World laments on a "singer on the fifth floor" with vocals so full of whispered intent that you can almost feel hot breath on your neck. Elsewhere, Barbara Lewis's soul classic Hello Stranger gets a chillout makeover, which doesn't quite work; but any faults are obliterated by the album's closer, City Appearing. In a stark premonition, Holter describes a city empty and collapsed; "Bright blue flames under my fingers," she coos with eerie serenity, before the instruments crescendo and then - puff! - the world Holter has created implodes. A beautiful reminder that we're all doomed.

Verenigde Staten
Electronic / Pop
Label: Domino

    World (4:52)
    Maxim's I (6:07)
    Horns Surrounding Me (4:46)
    In the Green Wild (4:07)
    Hello Stranger (6:16)
    Maxim's II (5:28)
    He's Running Through My Eyes (2:18)
    This Is a True Heart (3:30)
    City Appearing (7:16)