Julia Holter has set an August 21 release date for Materia, her next album for Domino. Alongside the announcement, she shared “My Lost One,” a track that unfolds slowly through Chris Speed’s ambiguous saxophone and Holter’s own murmured delivery. The song feels suspended between lullaby and ritual — soft, almost weightless, haunted by just enough friction to keep it from floating away.
Holter calls the piece a “witchy” folktale, one informed by children’s books packed with creepy rhymes, nonsense syllables, and images of the natural world intruding on interior life. Trees push through living rooms; animals wear clothes; the domestic and the feral trade places. The result is less a narrative than an atmosphere, a quiet invitation to imagine wildlife moving into your home as if it always belonged there. A squirrel cooking on the stove, for instance, appears as a plausible vision rather than a surrealist joke.
Materia will arrive two years after Holter’s previous album, continuing a run of work that rarely reaches for obvious signposts. The single suggests a record concerned with blurring boundaries — between inside and outside, comfort and unease, the real and the conjured. No tracklist or further details have been provided yet.
