Kevin Bronson on November 8th, 2023

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Since releasing her most recent album “Aviary” in 2018, composer Julia Holter has scored the film “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” performed a new live soundtrack to the 1928 silent movie “The Passion of Joan of Arc” with England’s Chorus of Opera North, collaborated with U.K. producer Call Super and remixed both New Age artist Beverly Glenn-Copeland and British pop artist Max Tundra.

The new single “Sun Girl,” which arrived this week along with a video by artist and animator Tammy Nguyễn, reaffirms that Holter is operating on another plane. The immersive track is composed of flute, field recordings, Yamaha CS-60, bagpipes, mellotron, drums and fretless bass as it journeys blithely into fanciful places where attention spans might be short but wonders abound.

The announcement of the single made no mention of a new album, but Holter fans can hope.

||| Watch: the video for “Sun Girl”