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All of this activity was just a warm-up for her first full-fledged album, 2011's Tragedy, which was released by Leaving Records. Inspired by Euripides' play Hippolytus, the album melded tweaked electronics with classical and pop elements, earning critical acclaim from avant and underground music publications both online and in print. Soon after Tragedy's release came Ekstasis, a lighter and more accessible but still complex song cycle that arrived in March 2012. The album marked her chart debut, reaching number 49 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart in the U.S. On top of her busy music schedule, she also found time to tutor teenagers in South Central L.A. as part of a nonprofit organization. Her third album, Loud City Song, was inspired by Colette's 1944 novella Gigi (and Vincente Minelli's 1958 film) and arrived in August 2013. Building on Ekstasis' acclaim, Loud City Song peaked at 19 on the Heatseekers Albums chart and became her first release to chart in Europe and the U.K., where it landed at 103 on the Official Albums Chart. On September 2015's Have You in My Wilderness, she took a more intimate, accessible approach that put her vocals front and center. Inspired by the writings of Christopher Isherwood and Colette, the album hit number three on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart and 29 on the U.K.'s Official Albums Chart. Collaborations with Ducktails and Jean-Michel Jarre preceded 2016's Bleed for This, the score to Ben Younger's film about boxer Vinny Pazienza. Early the next year, In the Same Room inaugurated a series of albums from Domino that featured the label's artists re-creating their definitive songs live in a London studio. In September 2017, Holter premiered her score to Carl Theodor Dryer's classic 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc at Los Angeles' FIGat7th. The following October, she released her fifth album Aviary, an exploration of memory featuring contributions from Cole M.G.N., Kenny Gilmore, and Tashi Wada and sources of inspiration including Vangelis' Blade Runner score, medieval music, and Alice Coltrane. The expansive double album reached 16 on the Heatseekers Albums chart in the U.S. and 73 on the U.K. Albums Chart.
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