Album review
Julie Byrne has announced her first new album in six years. The follow-up to 2017’s Not Even Happiness is called The Greater Wings, and it comes out July 7 via Ghostly International. Its first single, ‘Summer Glass’, is out today alongside an accompanying video. Check it out and find the LP’s cover art, tracklist, and Byrne’s upcoming tour dates below.
Byrne started recording The Greater Wings with her longtime collaborator Eric Littmann, who passed away in 2021. She completed the album with producer Alex Somers in the Catskills.
“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,” Byrne shared in a statement. “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.”
The Greater Wings Cover Artwork:
The Greater Wings 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
Julie Byrne 2023 Tour Dates:
Jul 23 Hebden, England – Bridge Trades Club
Jul 26 London, England – Kings Place Hall
Jul 28 Brighton, England – St Barts
Aug 18-20 Brecon Beacons, Wales – Green Man Festival
Sep 5 Seattle, WA – Fremont Abbey
Sep 6 Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
Sep 8 San Francisco, CA – Swedish American Hall
Sep 9 Felton, CA – Felton Music Hall
Sep 12 Los Angeles, CA Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
Sep 14 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy and Harriet’s
Sep 19 Washington, D.C. – Songbyrd
Sep 20 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church (Sanctuary)
Sep 21 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Sep 29 Providence, RI – Columbus Theatre
Sep 30 Somerville, MA – Crystal Ballroom
Nov 16 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Nov 17 Glasgow, UK – Mono
Nov 18 Manchester, UK – St Michael’s Church
Nov 22 Bristol, UK – The Jam Jar
Nov 24 Limerick, IE – Dolans Upstairs
Nov 25 Dublin, IE – Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire
Nov 26 Belfast, IE – The Black Box
