Julia Holter has shared a new song. “The Laugh Is in the Eyes” is a holdover from the sessions for Holter’s 2024 LP, Something in the Room She Moves, and takes its title from a lyric on that album’s “Spinning.” Listen to the new track below.
Holter made “The Laugh Is in the Eyes” with percussionist Elizabeth Goodfellow; fretless bassist Devra Hoff; clarinetist Chris Speed; synthesizer player Tashi Wada; co-producer and engineer Kenny Gilmore; and mastering engineer Heba Kadry. “‘The Laugh Is in the Eyes’ came out of the Something in the Room She Moves writing sessions and it shares that album’s devotion to transformation and bodily senses,” Holter stated. “There’s a loopy restlessness, a rhythmic 5ness alongside a 4ness, a circle and a square. Like in the song ‘Spinning,’ a surprise awakening awaits in the state of ‘night’—from stagnancy to the anticipation of flowers, flutes, feeling.”