Julie Byrne
About
Julie Byrne, who recently moved to Seattle from Chicago, crafts elegant, deliberately wrought songs that chronicle memory, hope, and loss using finely crafted lyrics and complex fingerpicked guitar run through delay. The somber, dreamlike quality of her songs is similar to a stripped-down Grouper, with restraint and measure in her deep, unusual vocal timbre.
Julie's first recording for Orindal was a 7" called Faster Or Greener Than Now. It was produced by Owen Ashworth & was released on December 4, 2012. Her debut album, Rooms With Walls and Windows collects twelve tracks from two limited edition cassette releases, recorded between 2011 & 2012 by Jake Acosta in Chicago, IL. Each song was recorded live, with Julie accompanying herself on fingerpicked acoustic guitar. Rooms With Walls & Windows was released on vinyl, CD & digital formats in early 2014 by Orindal.
Products
Links
- Julie Byrne official website
- MOJO Magazine's 20 Best Albums of 2014 So Far
- Spin Magazine's live review of Julie Byrne
- PItchfork's review of Rooms With Walls and Windows
- Portals's review of Rooms With Walls and Windows
- Gold Flake Paint's review of Rooms With Walls and Windows
- Wake the Deaf's review of Rooms With Walls of Windows
- Grand Abandon's review of Rooms With Walls and Windows
- Le Sigh's review of Rooms With Walls and Windows
- Crave Online's review of Rooms With Walls and Windows
- Video: "Natural Blue" (Green Man Session 2014)
- Video: "Emeralds" (Portals Session SXSW 2014)
- Portals premieres the "Prism Song" music video
- MOJO Magazine's Track of the Day
- Pitchfork's review of "Prism Song"
- Portals' conversation with Julie Byrne
- 7 Inches's review of Faster Or Greener Than Now
- The Le Sigh's review of Faster Or Greener Than Now
- Grand Abandon's review of Faster Or Greener Than Now
- Impose Magazine's review of Julie's debut cassette on Solid Melts