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After relocating to New York City, Julie honed her craft by performing at local venues and gaining recognition for her captivating live performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith each album release, Julie continues to push boundaries and explore new musical territories. Her critically acclaimed albums have garnered praise for their poetic lyricism, ethereal vocals, and intricate guitar work. From intimate acoustic ballads to atmospheric soundscapes, Julie's music creates a mesmerizing sonic landscape that resonates with listeners on a deep level.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-greater-wings","title":"The Greater Wings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne is a testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transform through the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courage to rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade, Byrne has moved through the world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the public eye. A self-taught musician that has committed her life to her work, she now emerges from a deeply trying and generative period with the most powerful, lustrous, and life-affirming music of her career, \u003ci\u003eThe Greater Wings\u003c\/i\u003e. While they hold the plasticity of grief and trauma, the songs are universally resonant, unbridled in their devotion and joy, held up by the love and alliance of a chosen family. Byrne leans further into atmospheres both expansive and intimate; the lush, evocative songcraft flows between her signature fingerpicked guitar, synthesizer, and a newly adopted piano, made wider by flourishes of harp and strings. It is the transcendent sound of resource, of friendship that was never without romance, of loyalty that burns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned in unrepeatable moments — raw, gorgeous, and wild. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Wings\u003c\/i\u003e was written across several seasons, pulling imagery from nights on tour, periods of isolation, and the drives cross-country for its various collaborations between Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Recording started with the late Eric Littmann, her longtime creative partner and \u003ci\u003eNot Even Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e producer, and finished in the Catskills of New York with producer Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Julianna Barwick). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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. 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. 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American wanderer Julie Byrne's second album \u003ci\u003eNot Even Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e comes 3 years after her debut. A more confident beast, \u003ci\u003eNot Even Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e adds atmospheric instrumentation and electronic flourishes to Byrne's unusual guitar tunings and fingerpicked melodies, moving the songs from the front-porch into subtle anthemia. Julie Byrne has counted Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans and Northampton, Massachusetts as her transient homes in recent years. For now, she's settled in New York City, moonlighting as a seasonal urban park ranger in Central Park. 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