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- Summary: The second release from the Californian indie singer-songwriter has more of a pop feel than her 2011 debut, Tragedy.
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- Record Label: RVNG Intl.
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Mixed: 2 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Mar 23, 2012With Julia Holter, with this profound and inexhaustibly gorgeous album, we can transcend our own transcendence and find the greatest bliss in the joyful renunciation of what makes us us.
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Mar 13, 2012Music that's both haunting and life-affirming, something to make you dream and think.
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Mar 13, 2012Ekstasis is ecstatically good.
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Mar 13, 2012It's both refreshing and exciting to hear an artist so vividly committed to exploring new frontiers in such a rewarding way.
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UncutMar 16, 2012It's remarkable that the cosmic Ekstasis--recorded in Holter's home with only five musicians--feels surer of itself than Tragedy, a record rooted in millennnia-old practice. [Apr 2012, p.72]
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Apr 5, 2012Ekstasis is brimming with them though [moments that are avant-gard yet instantly accessible] -an album so coherently constructed that it's perhaps more notable for its instants, its moments and sequences, than its full tracks.
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Mar 27, 2012Ekstasis is a lovely record. Bedroom pop that floats and swoons, it has a lightness to it at the same time as a real sense of seriousness and ambition.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Aug 18, 2013
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Feb 5, 2014
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Aug 25, 2022Quietly intimate avant-garde chamber pop folk thatvfeels like if Joanne Newsome had to whisper
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