Mistletone, The Gate, Spunk Records and FBi Radio present Los Angeles singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter, touring Australia for the first time for Laneway Festival and playing a very special, all ages show in York Street Church on Thursday February 7. *Please note venue change. All tickets purchase for Paddington Uniting Church are valid for (the even more beautiful) York St Church, located in the heart of Sydney at 3 York Street (right above Wynyard Station).

Julia Holter's lush, absorbing compositions juggle ideas from the pop and classical worlds, melding field recordings with baroque pop and hypnotic melodies. Described by Drum Media as "elusive and ethereal, fascinating and immersive", Julia's exquisite songs could not have a more perfect setting than the historic surrounds of York Street Church, where she will perform as a trio, her stately piano accompanied by cellist Christopher Votek and drummer Corey Fogel.

For her Sydney show, Julia Holter will be joined by Kieran Ryan, Melbourne songwriter and one half of now split indie rock group Kid Sam, who has recently released his first solo album under his own name on Spunk Records. The record was made with the help of friend and producer Myles Wootton (The Panics) and has a much wider and more expansive sound than that of the much acclaimed 2009 Kid Sam release, showing Kieran's versatility as a singer and songwriter. With the help of fellow Melbourne musicians Jessica Venables (Jessica Says), Nick Venables (Jessica Says), Luke Benge (Sikap Sempurna), Annabel Grigg (Oh Mercy), Kelly Lane (Skipping Girl Vinegar) and engineer Matt Voight (Cat Power, Geoffrey O'Connor) the result is a lush world of lyricism in a vast, and inviting sonic landscape.

Opening the evening will be Dear Time's Waste, the musical alter-ego of Auckland-based Claire Duncan, whose intense performances juxtapose saintly vocals against enigmatic instrumental ambience. Steeped in the gothic permanence of early Cure and the cloud-skipping gaze of Garlands-era Cocteau Twins, Dear Time's Waste's new album Some Kind of Eden (recently released on Spunk Records) works in a playful orbit, dancing between the lightness and weight of experience with cold purpose and red desperation ... The record follows on from Spells with a formidable sense of exactitude, a concrete precision echoed by the stringent monotony of electronic beats and pulsating textures in conversation with a malleable voice that surges and pulls with the demands of every instant.

Fresh off a string of shows with Sigur R s, playing the Andy Warhol Museum and appearing alongside Poland's Sinfonietta Cracovia Orchestra at the Unsound festival in Krakow, Julia Holter's live show is a swirl of dreamy pop beauty and classical atmospherics which will take your breath away.

"And at the center of all this time travel stands Julia Holter, pulling in references and sounds from everywhere and shaping them into a music that's both haunting and life-affirming, something to make you dream and think." - PITCHFORK BEST NEW MUSIC (Rating 8.6)

"Julia Holter has created a radically new world from a crystalline Venn diagram of sound." - NPR