[1][2] She did note listening often to the Indian flautist T. R. Mahalingam and watching the animated film Ponyo with her daughter, the latter having inspired the liquid production style of "Evening Mood" and the theme of transformability in songs like "Spinning".

[2][3] Though some have interpreted the change as a feminist subversion of the original lyric, or as a reference to Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Holter said neither were the case and that she hadn't thought that deeply about the name.

"[6] "Sun Girl", an ambient pop song built on flute, fretless bass, and toy percussion, came from Holter's obsession with capturing the playful feeling of nursery rhymes.

[7] Holter said the song's lyrics were about "being brought out of my comfort zone; into the unknown, playfulness and chaos", while The Line of Best Fit's Tyler Damara Kelly said they "evoke the spirit of a childlike game".

[10] Along with the album announcement, Holter shared tour dates for the US and Canada in May,[11] with her live band consisting of Devra Hoff on fretless bass, Beth Goodfellow on drums, Tashi Wada playing synthesizer and bagpipes, and Kenny Gilmore working sound.

[12] Something in the Room She Moves is primarily an art pop album[13] which features a range of genres, including avant-garde music, jazz-infused post-rock, classical, psychedelic folk, and electropop.

[14] The Arts Desk's Mark Kidel called Something in the Room She Moves "perhaps the most adventurous of all [of Holter's albums]", saying it "inhabits a world where nothing is certain, narratives are disjointed, and the imagination of the listener is left to run free.

's Tom Piekarski said the album "masterfully evokes a deeply grounding sense of peace, and feels carefully rooted in a commitment to a presence much more immediate than anything Holter has delivered before.

"[18] Spill Magazine's Igor Bannikov wrote that Holter came "back to what we might call the middle-ground between her most successful pop attempts and constant thirst for Björk-inspired, Lucrecia Dalt-laden experiments", and that "she has cut off everything redundant and got an extremely solid, consistent, and well-crafted piece of art.