Uninhibited, focused and majestically crafted, she’s simply never sounded more vital.
While it's tempting to say Have You in My Wilderness is her most personal music yet, it might be more accurate to say that it's her most approachable: this time, her brilliance demands a lot from her listeners, but also meets them more than halfway.
This is the kind of record you're happy to set spinning again and again.
The songs on Have You in My Wilderness move gently with few exception at the peaceful state of many ballads.
Superlatives barely do the record's beauty or brilliance justice. Something this exquisite extends beyond words on a page or, frankly, sound in the ears. Have You In My Wilderness is meant to be experienced; it's meant to be felt. Only then will you understand just how special Julia Holter's creation truly is.
With Have You In My Wilderness her songs feel brighter, more pop, yet they're also just as lush, as considered and as quietly experimental.
Rather than nodding respectfully at the artists of the past, Holter now fixes her stare inward, shining a torch on what makes her tick as a human being. The result is a much more honest and more personal collection.
Have You In My Wilderness is all about walking away and looking back, the content of desire and its form, the voice in search of clarifying itself.
Have You In My Wilderness finds Holter narrowing her focus a little. In doing so, she gets the best of both worlds, showing off her ability to write warm and breezy pop music while maintaining the complexity, and perplexity, that made her so intriguing to begin with.
Deciphering the message in her words relies on just how much time the listener is willing to devote to the album, but with music this brilliant, the task seems all the more alluring.
Even if Have You In My Wilderness is Holter's most accessible record to date, it's riddled with enough puzzles, lyrical twists and delicate refinement to remain intriguing listen after listen.
For an artist who could sometimes seem forbidding or remote, Have You In My Wilderness feels humane, and with each new release, it seems like a bit more of the personal is teased out of Holter's stately, high-concept approach.
Have You in My Wilderness’ best quality is that it won’t let you down if you get up close and sit with it for a while.
While still dreamlike, Have You in My Wilderness, Holter’s fourth album, is something clearly felt — the ocean spray on the warm breeze, the sun baking exposed limbs, a hand glancing across your skin before drifting away.
Wilderness is the kind of intimate, late-night album that fans of Holter’s work will find easy to cherish, and which should win her brand of hazy, blissful and often euphoric lullabies a whole new audience.
With Have You in My Wilderness, Holter’s musical worlds continue to engross.
With the change in musical temperature on Have You In My Wilderness, Julia Holter’s collection is now suitable for all seasons, rather than just the cold and sheltered moments of winter.
Have You in My Wilderness sees her positively gliding towards accessibility; she sacrifices none of her experimental credentials, but demonstrates no fear of allowing her sound to evolve either.
Her new one ... is about matters of the heart, and its stunning textures come in part from the 30-year-old singer/songwriter’s ensemble of talented L.A. musicians.
Album number four from this Los Angeles native is defined by its sense of cinematic grandeur and romantic narrative.
Have You In My Wilderness feels less like a wilderness and more like a stately Roman ruin, gorgeous but cold and untouchable. The pop-oriented material might gain Holter a few new fans, and expect “Feel You” to appear on some indie-oriented Spotify playlists.
Five hours ago I didn't know who Julia Holter is, now I'm a stan.
So yeah I'm ashamed to admit that I had no idea who Julia Holter is until this very day, I stumbled upon this album quite randomly and the cover seemed intriguing to me so I gave it a listen. And holy fuck, this has to be one of the most underrated baroque pop albums from the last decade, despite its relatively high score.
This is Julia Holter's 7th studio album, released in 2015. Julia wasn't new to the music world at the ... read more
For this review, I’m going to try and separate myself from the front page of the website, as I want more of my reviews to reflect my personal thoughts, not a mirrored edition of what the most liked review is. I’m guilty of this a lot.
Anyway, this album. Have You In My Wilderness. An intimate but heavenly experience lead by none other than Julia Holter. How did I experience this album?
By playing Minecraft. With shaders.
I don’t regret it one bit. I could care less about ... read more
Julia sent me back to her strings... I passed out.
Dreampop... Like most of the styles born (or popular) in the 1980s, dreampop continues to be used by many musicians in the new millennium. The problem, as with other movements of the time, is that this kind of music depends so much on big production effects that the records created quickly became so similar that they were condemned to float softly with the rest of the style in a steamy soup whose originality is hard to discern, so meticulously ... read more
This was so beautiful.
The first half is insanely amazing and pretty, her vocals are so sweet and the instrumentals are gorgeous.
I'll admit there's a moment in the middle of the album where two songs were not like the rest (kinda filler songs) but overall I loved this album, one of my best first listens of my 2024 so far.
Favorites:Feel You, Silhouette, Lucette Stranded On The Island, Night Song, Betsy On The Roof
Least Favorite: How Long?
Im impressed, this project is such a magical experience. The production is on such a high level and the lyrics are stunning… idk why but this project gives me huge weyes blood vibes
favs: betsy on the roof, silhouette
least fav: vasquez
1 | Feel You 4:08 | 95 |
2 | Silhouette 3:53 | 92 |
3 | How Long? 3:58 | 89 |
4 | Lucette Stranded on the Island 6:46 | 94 |
5 | Sea Calls Me Home 3:07 | 92 |
6 | Night Song 4:12 | 89 |
7 | Everytime Boots 3:28 | 87 |
8 | Betsy on the Roof 6:15 | 91 |
9 | Vasquez 6:37 | 86 |
10 | Have You in My Wilderness 3:36 | 90 |
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