Julia Holter w/ Andrew Tuttle @ Black Bear Lodge * tonight!

Playing times: Doors open 7pm Andrew Tuttle 8pm Julia Holter 9:15pm Hot on the heels of her colossal new album Have You In My Wilderness (Domino Records), Los Angeles experimental pop goddess Julia Holter brings her stunning ensemble for an intimate Brisbane headline show at the Black Bear Lodge, with special guest Andrew "Tutts" Tuttle. Proudly presented by Mistletone + 4zzz. Tickets still available! Have You In My Wilderness is Julia's fourth full length album, and her most intimate album yet. Recorded in her hometown of LA over the last year and once again crafted with Grammy-winning producer and engineer Cole Greif-Neill, the album follows 2013’s Loud City Song and two much-lauded previous titles – Ekstasis (2012) and Tragedy (2011). Have You in My Wilderness was written from the heart – warm, dark and raw – and explores love, trust, and power in human relationships. While love songs are familiar in pop music, Julia Holter manages to stay fascinatingly oblique and enigmatic, with some of the most sublime and transcendent music she has ever written. Like Julia’s previous albums, Have You in My Wilderness is multi-layered and texturally rich, featuring an array of electronic and acoustic instruments played by an ensemble of gifted Los Angeles musicians. It is also her most sonically intimate album, with her vocals front and centre in the mix, lifted out of the layers of smeared, hazy effects. The result is striking: clear and vivid, but disarmingly personal. And the critics have responded in the affirmative, to say the least...... "A genuinely exceptional and entrancing album, opaque but effective, filled with beautiful, skewed songs, unconventional without ever feeling precious or affected" - THE GUARDIAN ☆☆☆☆☆ (5 STARS) "What ultimately makes Have You In My Wilderness transcendent – and unique in Holter’s catalogue – is its intimacy" - PITCHFORK (8.4 BEST NEW MUSIC) "Her songs feel brighter, more pop, yet they're also just as lush, as considered and as quietly experimental" - UNCUT ☆☆☆☆½ (4.5 STARS) "This is not a record that wants or needs to be solved, but the clues and traces it leaves behind are so compelling it's difficult to let it alone" - MOJO ☆☆☆☆☆ (5 STARS)