Sepulchral? Liturgical? Decorative and droning? Someone's been listening to old 4AD albums, haven't they?Hometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Julia Holter (vocals, music).The background: On the face of it, the classically trained Julia Holter would seem to be operating at the opposite, arcane extreme to yesterday's perky Japanese Britpop revivalists. And yet, oddly, there are several occasions when the monastic chanting and decorative drones on her album Ekstasis drift towards pop. It's at times li...
Guardian Music — Sepulchral? Liturgical? Decorative and droning? Someone's been listening to old 4AD albums, haven't they?Hometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Julia Holter (vocals, music).Th... more info