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May 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts Julia Holter

Julia Holter released a new album, Aviary, last fall via Domino. It was our Album of the Week and made the Top 10 in our Top 100 Albums of 2018 list. Now she has announced some more summer tour dates for this July. Some of them are cities she’s never performed in before and the shows will feature a six-piece band. Check the dates out below, followed by the video for Aviary‘s “Les Jeux to You.”

Read our rave review of Aviary.

Pick up our current print issue (Issue 66) to read our interview with Julia Holter on Aviary.

Previously Holter shared a video for Aviary‘s first single, “I Shall Love 2” (which was our #1 Song of the Week). Then she shared another new song from the album, “Words I Heard,” also via a video (and it was also our #1 Song of the Week). Once the album was released, album track “I Shall Love 1” also made our Songs of the Week list. She also shared a making of documentary about the creation of the album. Then she shared a video from “Whether.” Then she shared a video for “Les Jeux to You” directed by Geneva Jacuzzi.

Aviary was initially inspired by a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan: “I found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birds.” A previous press release pointed out that it’s a good metaphor for the daily bad news cycle we currently find ourselves in, especially in the modern political climate. “Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it’s hard to find one’s foundation,” Holter elaborated in the press release. “I think this album is reflecting that feeling of cacophony and how one responds to it as a person - how one behaves, how one looks for love, for solace. Maybe it’s a matter of listening to and gathering the seeming madness, of forming something out of it and envisioning a future.”

Holter later added: “In a lot of the songs, when I mention love, it’s about a seeking for compassion and humility in a world where it feels like empathy is always being tested.”

Read our 2015 interview with Holter.

Julia Holter Tour Dates:

May 27 - Centro Cultural Villa Flor, Guimaraes
May 28 - Teatro Municipal de Guarda, Garda
May 29 - Capitólio, Lisbon
May 31 - Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona
June 1 - L’Aeronef, Lille
June 2 - Best Kept Secret Festival, Hilvarenbeek
June 3 - The Old Market, Brighton
June 4 - Glee Club, Birmingham
June 5 - Gården Festival, Goteborg
June 7 - Field Day Festival, London
June 8 - Vilette Sonique, Paris
June 9 - Rotondes, Luxembourg
June 12 - Bergen Festival, Bergen
June 13 - Piknik I Parken, Oslo
June 16 - Traumzeit Festival, Duisburg
June 17 - Manufaktur, Schörndorf
June 19 - NoD, Prague
June 20 - Rosengarten, Linz
June 21 - WUK, Vienna
June 23 - Magnolia, Milan
June 24 - Cortile Castello Estense, Ferrara
June 25 - Kaufleuten, Zurich
June 26 - Südpol, Lucerne
June 28 - Trafo, Jena
June 29 - Halfway Festival, Bialystok
July 4 - Gent Jazz Festival, Ghent
July 5 - Roskilde Festival, Roskilde
July 19 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
July 20 - Nashville, TN - The Basement East
July 21 - Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5
July 23 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
July 24 - Austin, TX - Antone’s
July 25 - Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum Art Co.
July 27 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf
July 29 - Phoenix, AZ - MIM Theater
July 30 - Tijuana, BC - Moustache
August 1 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
August 2 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel

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