Julia Holter to Release New Album Materia, Shares Lead Single “Fantasy”

10:05 AM EDT on June 23, 2026

It's been a couple years since Julia Holter released her latest LP, Something In The Room She Moves . Now, the LA chamber pop artist is announcing its follow-up/companion album called Materia . The celestial lead single "Fantasy" is out today.

"This song of seeming willful 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," Holter explains. "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."

Materia features the band from Something In The Room She Moves : Elizabeth Goodfellow on drums, Devra Hoff on fretless bass, Maia on flute, Chris Speed on saxophone and clarinet, Tashi Wada on synthesizers, and Kenny Gilmore on co-production, engineering, mixing. "Fantasy" comes with a music video directed by Dicky Bahto; watch below.

TRACKLIST: 01 "The Laugh is in The Eyes" 02 "My Lost One" 03 "Fantasy" 04 "Materia 2" 05 "Clepsydra" 06 "My Twin" 07 "Materia 3"

Materia is out 8/21 on Domino. Pre-order it here .

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