So clear!” Opening track Feel You is beautiful, airy and sunlit, its melody elevated by the arrangement’s harpsichord and strings and fidgety, stop-start drum pattern (the drumming is really inventive throughout, not a phrase you’re often required to deploy when reviewing new rock albums in 2015). Review: Julia Holter, 'Have You In My Wilderness' On her fourth album, Holter shares a part of herself that she'd always kept hidden. The lovely Lucette Stranded on the Island finds its heroine standing "Sharp and high on the Balearic promontory" waving a cheery "good riddance" to an abuser while Silhouette pictures a woman indefinitely awaiting a lover's return: "I'll hand him his coat/ it's exactly where he left it long ago…" The bass which splashed so brightly on Feel You slides down the semitones here like rain on a window.Although her songs are mostly slow, she knows how to shake. Have You in My Wilderness is a serene masterpiece, with classical, enveloping string arrangements, baroque instrumentation, and Holter's beautiful voice. All things considered, Have You In My Wilderness would be more accurately titled Julia Holter’s Wilderness Is A Plush Hotel With Above Average Air Conditioning On An Implausibly Aesthetic Desert Island So Please Come And Stay For As Long As You Care To (And No, You Can’t Go Outside). Moreover, she can keep shifting characters and accents without making the listener feel as if they’re in the audience at a dreadful am-dram production: it never jars or feels knowingly clever, it all just seems to fit the song.The result is a genuinely exceptional and entrancing album, opaque but effective, filled with beautiful, skewed songs, unconventional without ever feeling precious or affected. Screech! The composer, singer and keyboardist Julia Holter's latest album, Have You In My Wilderness, is her sunniest and most accessible. Here, the drums and sax sound weirdly muted, as if they are somewhere in the distance. There’s something gently unorthodox and intriguing about her approach to singing, the way her voice constantly shifts and changes: from strident and bright-eyed on the Vaudevillian Everytime Boots to heavy-lidded murmur on Vasquez, to a mournful, Nicoish low, complete with Teutonic inflections on How Long? Save Julia Holter Credit: Tonje Thilesen ... Julia Holter doesn't sing in the video to Feel You. But then, this is the kind of record you're happy to set spinning again and again.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Improbable as it seems, she could reasonably claim that there’s always been a pop element to her experimental acoustic ecology and improvised sound art: anyone with the stamina to get through the first 12 minutes of Bars in Afternoons (2013) – which, as the title suggested, consisted of recordings with muffled chat, clinking glasses etc – was rewarded by Holter suddenly breaking into a gorgeous, spectral piano ballad, Two years on, Have You in My Wilderness takes her pop inclinations further. Julia Holter Julia Holter chronology Loud City Song Have You in My Wilderness In the Same Room Singles from Have You in My Wilderness "Feel You" Released: July 16, 2015 "Sea Calls Me Home" Released: August 24, 2015 Have You in My Wilderness is the fourth studio album by American musicia… Because her parents are both historians, and because she studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts and has written songs inspired by But while she's clearly a thoughtful woman with a deep, technical understanding of her craft, she doesn't take herself too seriously. Julia Holter: Have You in My Wilderness review – an ambitious triumph ... Julia Holter: ‘evokes wonder and fascination’.