Julia Holter - Aviary

[Dirty Boy]

I loved Have You In My Wilderness and Loud City Song, so was looking forward to this.

I'm only on my second listen, which is nowhere near close to unpicking this nonsense, but from what i can gather this is some fascinating and haunting... what would you call it? art rock? wonky pop? pretentious shite? shades of Ms Bush, Laurie Anderson, Holly Herndon etc.

Anyone else heard it yet?

I Shall Love 2

[Head Gardener]

it's amazing, the first track alone is one of the best tunes of the year

[Shaky]

I Shall Love 2

Oooh, I'd heard bits and bobs in the past but that track is absolutely lovely.

[king_tubby]

Oh, worth checking out then, I guess. I love Tragedy and Ekstasis, but wasn't that bothered by the next two, they weren't odd enough.

[Howj Begg]

I loved Wilderness too, looking forward to this

[sevendaughters]

Didn't like any of Holter's previous at all (which I heard near enough the time of release). But, because she's an important act of our day and on good terms with a bunch of musicians I do like (Gary War, John Maus), I went in on this wholeheartedly. I also re-listened to Ekstasis last week and liked it much more than I did at the time.

It was a wild ride that had peaks and troughs before it ended with me tapping out during the child chorus of 'I Will Love 2'. The one song with the bagpipes is tremendously awful. I liked the run at the start, with the VERY Bjorky opener, and particularly 'Chaitus', but the whole thing felt like a bit of an endurance test. I took a look at the run times of the tracks still to play and knew I wasn't getting out of there without feeling tetchy and annoyed, so I turned it off. I might return to it but maybe like Ekstasis she's 6 years ahead of my tastes.

[Dirty Boy]

Oh yeah, i didn't mention that there's 90 minutes of it!

I think i'm really going to get a lot out of this album over the winter.

[Brundle-Fly]

Holter is great. Real ear for melody amongst all the gentle oddness.

[king_tubby]

First listen this morning and it didn't really grab me. I thought the second cd was more interesting.

I'll give it another go RIGHT NOW.