[Cover photo credit to Dicky Bahto]

Composer and songwriter Julia Holter has announced Materia, a seven-track companion album to her 2024 release Something in the Room She Moves. The collection, a sequel of sorts, includes new songs written and recorded with her band in between tours, reinventions of Something’s “Materia,” and songs first conceived around the making of the 2024 record.

Alongside the announcement, Holter shared new single “Fantasy,” which has qualities of a “waking dream.” The accompanying video, directed by Dicky Bahto in collaboration with Holter, features Holter herself amid a series of dreamlike clips.

Reflecting on “Fantasy,” Holter shares:

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. It’s dancey, 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.

Materia is available to pre-order on Black vinyl with a doubled sided poster/lyric sheet, as well as CD with lyric booklet, and digitally.