Julie Byrne returns with first new music in six years

The Greater Wings is Byrne's first full-length album since 2017's Not Even Happiness.

The album was written across several seasons, pulling imagery from nights on tour, periods of isolation, and drives cross-country for its various collaborations between Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Recording started with the late Eric Littmann (Phantom Posse, Steve Sobs) – 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,” Byrne explains. “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 be embarking on UK/EI tour in November to celebrate the album's release.

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