The music has shifted, gaining warmth and weight while remaining essentially mysterious. Instead of unpacking weighty overarching concepts, Holter is telling stories, brief and foggy ones that are often plagued by ambiguities. The composer, keyboardist and singer Julia Holter has pursued her strange, dreamlike visions across three albums of experimental pop, all released in the last three years

The title track and last song on Julia Holter’s album Have You In My Wilderness, released on 2015. Julia wrote the song in 2011 about the idea of possessing a person. She decided to use it as the title for her album (which was originally going to be called All My Love for You) at the last minute, because it represented what she thought she was trying to do with the record, which was to make a love songs record

After drawing on Greek tragedies and MGM musicals for her earlier albums, it would be hard for Julia Holter to find loftier sources of inspiration. On Have You in My Wilderness, she recasts her ambition to a more intimate scale: where her previous album Loud City Song had the heft of a novel, these songs play like a collection of short stories.

Have You in My Wilderness is the fourth studio album by American musician Julia Holter, released on September 25, 2015, on Domino Recording Company. Co-produced by Holter and Cole M. Greif-Neill, the album was preceded by the singles "Feel You" and "Sea Calls Me Home". The album was released to widespread critical acclaim, placing highly on several music critics' end-of-year lists, and increased Holter's exposure significantly.

While still dreamlike, Have You in My Wilderness, Holter’s fourth album, is something clearly felt - the ocean spray on the warm breeze, the sun baking exposed limbs, a hand glancing across your skin before drifting away. With the change in musical temperature on Have You In My Wilderness, Julia Holter’s collection is now suitable for all seasons, rather than just the cold and sheltered moments of winter.

This is the European release (it comes in a gatefold cardboard sleeve (4-panel digisleeve), with 8-page English lyrics fold-out sheet), re-packaged for Japan with extra stickers on the shrink & a small sticker inside of the front artwork, a Japanese fold-out sheet plus an "obi sheet" (front left & covers entire rear) with the Japanese release info.

Bold experimentalism is key for Californian Julia Holter. Her third album is a melange of thoughtful, alternative approaches to pop. Feel You ’s harpsichord jauntiness and skittish drums provide the idea platform for the album’s textual tapestry. Syncopated jazz ( Vazquez ), hypnotic shanties ( Sea Calls Me Home ) and aching torch songs ( How Long? and Night Song ) all follow, but the tone-while opulent, rich and dramatic-never feels false. Silhouette is a gorgeously off-kilter, while Betsey on the Roof builds from barely a whisper. Have You in My Wilderness Julia Holter.

Julia Holter has long been one for citing influences not normally found on the average popstar playlist: Euripides’s Hippolytus, for instance, or field recordings taken from the inside of old furniture stores. Have You in My Wilderness was no different in that respect – critics spotted traces of everything from 17th-century madrigals to the piano compositions of Maurice Ravel in this bewitching record, whereas Holter herself talked about the literary influence of Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories and Colette’s Chance Acquaintances  . Whereas Holter’s last album, Loud City Song, was deliberately abrasive in places, jolting and jarring you like urban life tends to, Have You in My Wilderness felt warmer and more wide-eyed.

Sometimes listening to Julia Holter is like watching a film of a dream: gauzy, beautiful, the set immaculately dressed and the light in the golden hour haloing the characters’ emotional highs and lows. At other times, her music is like dreaming of a film, something half-remembered or only eerily discernible, as if you’re falling asleep in front of the TV as snatches of a classic romance flit around amid your own concerns and passions. While still dreamlike, Have You in My Wilderness, Holter’s fourth album, is something clearly felt - the ocean spray on the warm breeze, the sun baking exposed limbs, a hand glancing across your skin before drifting away. Her first three albums each felt thematically tied together in smart, artful packages based on preexisting literature and film: Tragedy ran on Euripedes, Ekstasis worked with modern poetry, and Loud City Song rotated around 1958 romantic musical Gigi.