Mistletone

JULIA HOLTER MELBOURNE SHOW: Northcote Social Club, Friday February 14 with special guest Ducktails + Evelyn Ida Morris (Pikelet) + DJ Dan Lewis (Special Award Records). Tickets on sale now from The Corner Box Office. Presented by Triple R.

Mistletone proudly presents Julia Holter, one of the most singular artists to emerge from the groundswell of independent music in America. A Los Angeles composer who melds avant-pop and the art-song tradition, Julia Holter’s music is ambitious, yet intimate, described by Pitchfork as “bedroom pop made by somebody with pin-ups of Heidegger, Virginia Woolf and Laurie Anderson papering the walls”. Julia’s lush new album for Domino, Loud City Song, is one of the most universally critically acclaimed records this year. Julia Holter first toured Australia as a trio for Laneway Festival 2013 and now returns as a five piece, her extraordinary vocals and keyboards accompanied by cello, violin, sax and drums.

Very special guest for Julia’s return Australian tour is Ducktails, aka Brooklyn-based Matthew Mondanile, in exquisite solo performance mode. Ducktails traffics in the spaced-out pop songs one might discover in out-of-the-way thrift stores or deep in bins of 1970s private-press records—a casually sophisticated, genre-eluding pop ambience that contrasts with, yet echoes, the music Matt plays in the indie group Real Estate.