Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings [Sky Blue LP]

The first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne isa testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transformthrough the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courageto rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade, Byrne has moved throughthe world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the publiceye. A self-taught musician that has committed her life to her work, shenow emerges from a deeply trying and generative period with the mostpowerful, lustrous, and life-affirming music of her career,The GreaterWings. While they hold the plasticity of grief and trauma, the songs areuniversally resonant, unbridled in their devotion and joy, held up by thelove and alliance of a chosen family. Byrne leans further into atmospheresboth expansive and intimate; the lush, evocative songcraft flows betweenher signature fingerpicked guitar, synthesizer, and a newly adopted piano,made wider by flourishes of harp and strings. It is the transcendent soundof resource, of friendship that was never without romance, of loyalty thatburns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned inunrepeatable moments raw, gorgeous, and wild.

Tracklist:

1. The Greater Wings
2. Portrait of a Clear Day
3. Moonless
4. Summer Glass
5. Summer’s End
6. Lightning Comes Up from the Ground
7. Flare
8. Conversation Is a Flowstate
9. Hope’s Return
10. Death Is the Diamond

UPC: 804297841632
Label: Ghostly Int’l
Release Date: 7.7.23
Format: Vinyl