Julia Holter’s latest album Aviary opens with Turn the Lights On – a wall of sound that sounds like a passage in a Swans song when they’re in full transcendent mode.
And it gets more disarming as it progresses – it’s one of the most inventive and experimental records of the year, veering from modern composition to medieval arrangements, piano ballads, buddhist chanting and serene electronica.
Her last tour had a ‘bit’ that was apparently as intense as My Bloody Valentine’s so-called ‘holocaust section’, that forced some people to leave early, but hopefully the Button Factory is up to it.
- Julia Holter plays the Button Factory in Dublin tomorrow, Saturday
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