Have You in My Wilderness
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| Studio album by Julia Holter | ||||
| Released | September 25, 2015 | |||
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| Length | 46:00 | |||
| Label | Domino | |||
| Producer | Cole M. Greif-Neill & Julia Holter | |||
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| AnyDecentMusic? | 8.5/10 |
| Metacritic | 87/100 |
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| NME | 4/5 |
| Pitchfork | 8.4/10 |
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| Uncut | 9/10 |
Have You in My Wilderness is the fourth studio album by American musician Julia Holter, released on September 25, 2015, on Domino Records. Co-produced by Holter and Cole M. Greif-Neill, the album was preceded by the singles "Feel You" and "Sea Calls Me Home".
The album was released to widespread critical acclaim, placing highly on several music critics' end-of-year lists, and increased Holter's exposure significantly.
Unlike Holter's previous studio album, Loud City Song (2013), a concept album loosely inspired by the 1958 film, Gigi, Have You in My Wilderness is not linked by a unified narrative. Prior to the album's release, Holter noted: "It's more like Ekstasis than the last record. [...] For me it's easier to come up with this single story that ties everything together, so it was harder to do this record: to do something where I have to make up stories for every song."
Regarding the writing process for her lyrics, Holter noted, "I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent, I let the song kind of go where it wants to go. I don't think that's a new idea, at all, but I think that maybe I do it to an extreme." Both "Sea Calls Me Home" and "Betsy on the Roof" were written years prior to recording and often performed during Holter's live performances. "Lucette Stranded on the Island" was influenced by Colette's novella, Chance Acquaintances, while novelist Christopher Isherwood's recurring fictional character, Sally Bowles, was an influence in writing "How Long?".
Holter cites Scott Walker's song, "Duchess", as a key influence on the album, noting: "Somehow that song captures what I was trying to do on a larger level: this warm, golden group of love songs. That was what I had in mind, [but] in the end I don't think it comes across."
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