Artist:
Julie Byrne
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Folk
Total Time:
38:00
Record Label:
Ghostly Int'L
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music
Release Date
July 7, 2023
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Julie Byrne
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Folk
Total Time:
38:00
Record Label:
Ghostly Int'L
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music
Release Date
July 7, 2023
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Purchasing Links
Product Description: The first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne is a testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transform through the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courage to rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade, Byrne has moved through the world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the public eye. A self-taught musician that has committed her life to her work, she now emerges from a deeply trying and generative period with the most powerful, lustrous, and life-affirming music of her career, The Greater Wings. While they hold the plasticity of grief and trauma, the songs are universally resonant, unbridled in their devotion and joy, held up by the love and alliance of a chosen family. Byrne leans further into atmospheres both expansive and intimate; the lush, evocative songcraft flows between her signature fingerpicked guitar, synthesizer, and a newly adopted piano, made wider by flourishes of harp and strings. It is the transcendent sound of resource, of friendship that was never without romance, of loyalty that burns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned in unrepeatable moments - raw, gorgeous, and wild.The Greater Wings was written across several seasons, pulling imagery from nights on tour, periods of isolation, and the drives cross-country for it's various collaborations between Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Recording started with the late Eric Littmann, her longtime creative partner and Not Even Happiness producer, and finished in the Catskills of New York with producer Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Julianna Barwick)."My hope for The Greater Wings is that it lives as a love letter to my chosen family and as an expression of the depth of my commitment to our shared future. Being reshaped by grief also has me more aware of what death does not take from me. I commit that to heart, to words, to sound. Music is not bound to any kind of linear time, so in the capacity to record and speak to the future: this is what it felt like to me, when we were simultaneous, alive, occurring all at once. What it has felt like to go up against my edge and push, the love that has made it worth all this fight. These memories are my values, they belong with me."Julie Byrne will confess the success of her 2017 LP Not Even Happiness was unexpected; nine gracefully road-worn odes to the fringes of life she assembled without any expectation that they'd travel so far beyond their DIY origins. But it's hushed closing track, "I Live Now As A Singer," did forecast an intention. She knew the open space - occupied by Littmann's signature palette of synth tones, Jake Falby's strings, and Byrne's robust, drifting voice - presented something new and thrilling, something they'd develop as a live band touring the world, and what would later be understood as the catalyst for material to come. From orchestral folk meditations ("The Greater Wings", "Portrait of a Clear Day") to windswept piano ballads ("Moonless", "Death Is The Diamond") to the luminous, synth-driven euphoria of "Summer Glass," The Greater Wings builds on this revelatory space at every turn.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
The Greater Wings
(03:25)
2 . Portrait Of A Clear Day (03:21)
3 . Moonless (03:46)
4 . Summer Glass (04:20)
5 . Summer's End (02:56)
6 . Lightning Comes Up From The Ground (04:00)
7 . Flare (03:48)
8 . Conversation Is A Flowstate (03:38)
9 . Hope's Return (04:05)
10 .Death Is The Diamond (05:09)
2 . Portrait Of A Clear Day (03:21)
3 . Moonless (03:46)
4 . Summer Glass (04:20)
5 . Summer's End (02:56)
6 . Lightning Comes Up From The Ground (04:00)
7 . Flare (03:48)
8 . Conversation Is A Flowstate (03:38)
9 . Hope's Return (04:05)
10 .Death Is The Diamond (05:09)
OTHER ALBUM RELEASES:
- New Album Releases: CHAOS FOR THE FLY (Grian Chatten)
- New Album Releases: DREAM FROM THE DEEP WELL (Brigid Mae Power)
- New Album Releases: PAVEL CHESNOKOV - SACRED CHORAL MUSIC (Cambridge University Chamber Choir, St. John's Voices, Graham Walker)
- New Album Releases: GRAND SALAMI TIME! (The Baseball Project)
- New Album Releases: TO BE CRUEL (Khanate) - Metal
- New Album Releases: NIELSEN - VIOLIN CONCERTO; SYMPHONY NO. 4 "THE INEXTINGUISHABLE" (James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner)
- New Album Releases: GOOD LIVING IS COMING FOR YOU (Sweeping Promises)
- New Album Releases: WAIT UNTIL THE FLAMES COME RUSHING IN (Special Friend)
- New Album Releases: CONTRA-TENOR (Michael Spyres, Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti)
- New Album Releases: CONTINUING (Tyshawn Sorey)
- New Album Releases: BLOWOUT (John Carroll Kirby)
- New Album Releases: I DON'T KNOW (bdrmm)
- New Album Releases: THE HAPPIEST TIMES I EVER IGNORED (Hayden Pedigo)
- New Album Releases: I'VE GOT ME (Joanna Sternberg)
- New Album Releases: SYSTEMIC (Divide And Dissolve)
- New Album Releases: SPEAK NOW (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift
- New Album Releases: I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING (PJ Harvey)
- New Album Releases: CROWD CAN TALK / DRESSED IN TRENCHES (Lifeguard)
- New Album Releases: BEETHOVEN AND BEYOND (Maria Duenas, Manfred Honeck, Wiener Symphoniker)
- New Album Releases: SLUGS OF LOVE (Little Dragon)
- New Album Releases: MY BACK WAS A BRIDGE FOR YOU TO CROSS (Anohni and the Johnsons)
- New Album Releases: I WANT IT ALL RIGHT NOW (Grouplove)
- New Album Releases: BACH - ST. JOHN PASSION (Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan)
- New Album Releases: TONY ALLEN JID018 (Tony Allen & Adrian Younge)
- New Album Releases: RAIN BEFORE SEVEN ... (Penguin Cafe)
- New Album Releases: CESAR FRANCK - PIANO TRIO & QUINTET; VIOLIN SONATA; LOUIS VIERNE: PIANO QUINTET (Trio Wanderer, Catherine Montier, Christophe Gaugué)
- New Album Releases: 1980s BUBBLEGUM (The Particles)
- New Album Releases: SUEDE (The London Suede)
- New Album Releases: MOZART - PIANO CONCERTOS 20, 21, 23, 27 (Elizabeth Sombart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Vallet)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please keep the comments as civilised as possible, and refrain from spamming. All comments will be moderated. Thank you !