It houses-imprisons, displays-all of us, from the most shrill and petulant to the most muted and reserved. ![]() ![]() “Holter’s baroque textures and wildly ambitious musicianship imply this aviary’s particulars: wrought-iron, ornate and victorian, vast and overflowing with untended plant life. Pace’s rave 8.5/10 review of Aviary he writes: Holter later added: “In a lot of the songs, when I mention love, it’s about a seeking for compassion and humility in a world where it feels like empathy is always being tested.” Maybe it’s a matter of listening to and gathering the seeming madness, of forming something out of it and envisioning a future.” “I think this album is reflecting that feeling of cacophony and how one responds to it as a person-how one behaves, how one looks for love, for solace. “Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it’s hard to find one’s foundation,” Holter elaborated in the press release. Julia Holter has released a new album, Aviary, today via Domino and it’s our Album of the Week.Īviary was initially inspired by a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan: “I found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birds.” A previous press release pointed out that it’s a good metaphor for the daily bad news cycle we currently find ourselves in, especially in the modern political climate.
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