Julie Byrne

Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2023

PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2023

This was the year of the long-awaited payoff. After long stretches of toil and creative refinement, 2023 saw the dam break for a handful of...

Julie Byrne Announces New EP, Shares "Velocity! What About the Inertia!?"

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2023

New York singer-songwriter Julie Byrne has just announced her new EP Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh, due November 17 via Ghostly Internat...

Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Julie Byrne's 'The Greater Wings' Aches with Love and Grief

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2023

"I drank the air to be nearer to you." That's the first line Julie Byrne sings, atop spectral guitar plucking, on the titular opening track...

Julie Byrne Unveils 'The Greater Wings' of First New Album in Six Years, Shares "Summer Glass"

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2023

New York singer-songwriter Julie Byrne has announced her first new album in over six years, led by new single "Summer Glass." The Greater...

Nick Thorburn Admits to Accidentally Plagiarizing Julie Byrne on Islands' New Album

PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2021

Nick Thorburn just released the new Islands album Islomania, but the record has now led him to face quite the awkward situation. As the Can...

Exclaim!'s Top 10 Folk and Country Albums

Best of 2017

PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2017

Last week, we began the annual rollout of our genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2017, including the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, our...

Julie Byrne

The Great Hall, Toronto ON, July 18

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2017

It's not often that you go to a show in Toronto and find yourself amongst an audience as quiet as the one gathered for Julie Byrne last nig...

Julie Byrne

Not Even Happiness

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2017

The songs on New York songwriter Julie Byrne's second album, Not Even Happiness, feel intensely familiar, but never tritely so; like a favo...