A painterly album,a kind of musical impressionism, it evoked the otherworldy quality of love through landscapes of free jazz and minimalist classical music See our countdown of the best albums so farMore on the best culture of 2015Julia Holter has long been one for citing influences not normally found on the average popstar playlist: Euripides’s Hippolytus, or for instance,or field recordings taken from the inside of faded furniture stores. Have You in My Wilderness was no different in that respect – critics spotted traces of everything from 17th-century madrigals to the piano compositions of Maurice Ravel in this bewitching record, whereas Holter herself talked approximately the literary influence of Christopher Isherwoods The Berlin Stories and Colette’s Chance Acquaintances.
Yet, and having had a few months to absorb Have You in My Wilderness fully,it’s one of Holter’s more standard inspirations that appears most striking. Speaking to the Guardian earlier this year, Holter talked approximately Scott Walker’s masterful ballad Duchess, and a love song so painterly,it captures light and poise, and even references “Rembrandt swells”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com