Julia Holter Announces New Album Materia

The LP is a companion to 2024’s Something in the Room She Moves

June 23, 2026

Julia Holter isn’t finished with the themes of her 2024 LP Something in the Room She Moves just yet. The art-pop composer and singer-songwriter revealed she’s got a new album on the way (Materia, out August 21 via Domino) that functions as a companion record. Check out the single “Fantasy” and its Dicky Bahto-directed video below.

“This song of seeming willful abandon was somehow the most laborious undertaking of the entire record—it took over a year and went through various transformations—and I love that contradiction,” Holter said in a statement. “It’s dance-y, it feels to me like a kind of conjuring. And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too. I was trying to find the right sanguine tempo.”

In press materials, Materia is described as a collection of new songs written and recorded with Holter’s band between tours, including multiple reinventions of the Something in the Room She Moves cut “Materia,” along with a few tracks conceived around the making of that album. One of those songs, “My Twin,” is a 10-minute solo improvisation by Holter.

Read about “Spinning” from Something in the Room She Moves in The 100 Best Songs of 2024.

Materia:

01 The Laugh is in The Eyes

02 My Lost One

03 Fantasy

04 Materia 2

05 Clepsydra

06 My Twin

07 Materia 3

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