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Apr 24, 2023 By Mark Redfern Photography by Tonje Thilesen

Julie Byrne has announced a new album, The Greater Wings, and shared its first single, “Summer Glass,” via a music video. She’s also announced some tour dates. The Greater Wings is Byrne’s first new album in six years and is due out July 7 via Ghostly International. Le’Andra LeSeur directed the “Summer Glass” video. Check it out below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover artwork, as well as the tour dates.

Byrne’s last album was 2017’s acclaimed Not Even Happiness.

“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 says in a press release. “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.”

Byrne started recording the album with her longtime creative partner, the late Eric Littmann (who produced Not Even Happiness). She finished the album with producer Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Julianna Barwick), recording in the Catskills of New York.

The Greater Wings 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

Julie Byrne Tour Dates: 7/23 - Hebden, UK @ Bridge Trades Club
7/26 - London, UK @ Kings Place Hall
7/28 - Brighton, UK @ St Barts
8/18-20 - Brecon Beacons, Wales @ Green Man Festival
9/5 - Seattle,WA @ Fremont Abbey
9/6 - Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
9/8 - San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall
9/9 - Felton, CA @ Felton Music Hall
9/12 - Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
9/14 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet’s
9/19 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
9/20 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church (Sanctuary)
9/21 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
9/29 - Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre
9/30 - Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom
11/16 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
11/17 - Glasgow, UK @ Mono
11/18 - Manchester, UK @ St Michael’s Church
11/22 - Bristol, UK @ The Jam Jar
11/24 - Limerick, IE @ Dolans Upstairs
11/25 - Dublin, IE @ Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire
11/26 - Belfast, IE @ The Black Box

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