Kevin Bronson on July 14th, 2015

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It feels as if Julia Holter is lifting the veil on her new single “Feel You.” The L.A.-based singer-songwriter-composer has birthed three albums of painterly, highly conceptual art-pop since 2011 — one based on Greek playwright Eruipes’ “Hippolytus,” another based on the French writer Gig’s 1944 novella “Colette.” On those, along with the beautifully cinematic “Ekstasis” in 2012, Holter’s ideas and story arcs were the focus, emerging like opaque shapes from her compositions’ web of electronic and acoustic instrumentation. If “Feel You” and its front-and-center vocals are any indication, the songwriter herself figures to be less inscrutable on her new album “Have You in My Wilderness.” It’s out Sept. 25 via Domino, being touted as a “disarmingly personal” album about relationships. On “Feel You,” Holter sings “Can I feel you? Are you mythological?” Even given her proven ability to be sonically disarming, we’ve wondered the same thing.

||| Watch: “Feel You”

||| Previously: “World,” “What We See” (with Nite Jewel)

Photo by Tonje Thilesen