Spinning

Album: Something In The Room She Moves (2024)
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  • "Spinning" is a mesmerizing and dreamlike track with cryptic lyrics that are open to interpretation. They incorporate abstract imagery and fragmented phrases that evoke a sense of movement and transformation.

    "I have an odd relationship with words," Julia Holter told Uncut magazine. "Sound comes much more easily to me, and the words that accompany them are often just sounds, plucked from my subconscious. It's something I struggle with, but in a positive way. Some of the lyrics here, like with Spinning, might sound like random, stream of consciousness rambling, but it's something I've actually been staring at and agonizing over for a year!"
  • Holter co-wrote "Spinning" with Devin Hoff, a bassist, composer and arranger. Hoff has collaborated with Julia Holter since her 2013 Loud City Song album.
  • Released on January 9, 2024, "Spinning" is the second single from Holter's 2024 album Something In The Room She Moves. The record is inspired in part by the avant-pop artist's first daughter, who was born during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    "With this album, a lot of it was written and recorded under lockdown, and while I was pregnant, and after the birth of my daughter in 2020," Holter told Uncut magazine. "So, a lot of it is about life and death, about the body, about me being fixated with lungs, with breathing, with a process of transform."

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