Singer, songwriter, composer, and producer Julia Holter has announced her upcoming album today, Materia, a companion piece to her critically acclaimed 2024 album, Something in the Room She Moves. The album is set to be released on August 21, 2026 by Domino Records.

The record's first single from is called "Fantasy," and is accompanied by a new music video directed by Dicky Bahto. Listen/watch here:

Materia is a re-examination and development of the song with the same name from her 2024 album, Something. This new record contains two variations on "Materia," as well as five new tracks. According to the press release, these songs were written and recorded in between her last two tours, and first conceived around the making of her last record.

Of "Fantasy," Holter said:

"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. Daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too. I was trying to find the right sanguine tempo.”

Materia is out August 21. Preorder here and stream here. Full tracklist below:

1. The Laugh is in The Eyes
2. My Lost One
3. Fantasy
4. Materia 2
5. Clepsydra
6. My Twin
7. Materia 3

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