A beautiful, sensual, dream-like, ethereal new track by the acclaimed Los Angeles composer and songwriter, heralding her upcoming new album Materia, out on 21 August, a seven-track companion album to her superb 2024 release Something in the Room She Moves, also out on Domino Records.
On Fantasy, Holter explains: “This song of seeming wilful 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.”
The accompanying video, directed by Dicky Bahto in collaboration with Holter, features Holter herself amid a series of fleeting, dreamlike clips–arms reaching through the frame, gestures of movement and connection inspired by monastic sign language, the appearance of a beloved cat.
Materia, 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.
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Don't press mute, just let the noises shine
May the daydream flood my mind
Out of shade in the chime
I don't care, I guess I won't say no
Surprises, I promise to come over
When I see a trace of colour
I wanna take that drive
And I'll bring you
Sing a theme and cry
Blink at the light, and hope to survive
I can see you from the water
My head heavy sinking feelings
I can't sleep through the miles
I missed my fantasy
It's my fantasy I want now
The directions are secondhand
Chasing my seabird view upstream
It's light for miles though in the ending scene
On a balcony, I crawl
My love, turn around
I won the rainbow
Where we play, we meet
Syncing the night, and coordinates I write
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