New York singer-songwriter Julie Byrne has announced her first new album in over six years, led by new single "Summer Glass."
The Greater Wings will carry us away on July 7 via Ghostly International — her first record for the indie label. The album follows 2017's acclaimed Not Even Happiness, which landed among our 10 best folk and country albums that year.
Byrne began recording the LP with the late Eric Littmann, who produced Not Even Happiness and was her longtime creative partner, and completed it with 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," the singer-songwriter explained 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."
She continued, "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."
According to press materials, the dazzling lead single "Summer Glass" serves as the album's centrepiece; it's the lit-from-within, synth-driven beating heart with harp from Marilu Donovan and strings by Jake Falby.
Watch the video for "Summer Glass" below, where you'll also find the album tracklist.
The Greater Wings:
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
Pre-order The Greater Wings.
The Greater Wings will carry us away on July 7 via Ghostly International — her first record for the indie label. The album follows 2017's acclaimed Not Even Happiness, which landed among our 10 best folk and country albums that year.
Byrne began recording the LP with the late Eric Littmann, who produced Not Even Happiness and was her longtime creative partner, and completed it with 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," the singer-songwriter explained 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."
She continued, "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."
According to press materials, the dazzling lead single "Summer Glass" serves as the album's centrepiece; it's the lit-from-within, synth-driven beating heart with harp from Marilu Donovan and strings by Jake Falby.
Watch the video for "Summer Glass" below, where you'll also find the album tracklist.
The Greater Wings:
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
Pre-order The Greater Wings.
