“Spinning”

Julia Holter’s “Spinning” is a love song that feels like new love itself, folding infatuation’s dizziness right into its unsteady movements. The drums weave with an agreeably drunken lurch; the synths are radiant; little eruptions of jazz woodwinds slip out like quickened breath. Holter sighs and hiccups her way through free-associative lyrics that dangle just this side of nonsense while leaving no doubt about her state of mind: “The pulse is light/I steal the whoa/Expect nothing and seeking all.” Taken together, the latest song from the forthcoming Something in the Room She Moves is an understated rush of images, sensations, puns, and synesthetic cues that could awaken the giddy teenager in even the hardest of hearts. Whatever Holter means when she sings, “Oh continuum/When you’re fish/You’re terrific,” it sounds like a reminder that when it comes to love, it’s best to go with the flow.