Julie Byrne Returns With First Album In Six Years

Shares video for lead single ‘Summer Glass’.

Julie Byrne announces her highly-anticipated album The Greater Wings, after a six-year hiatus. The record, which marks her debut with Ghostly International, is a reflection of her commitment to her chosen family and a celebration of life in the face of grief. Byrne takes us on a journey across seasons and locations, capturing the essence of her collaborations with musicians from Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Her signature fingerpicked guitar and synthesizer, combined with newly adopted piano and harp, create a lush, intimate atmosphere that is both raw and wild. "Summer Glass," the lead single, is a luminous synth ballad that captures the themes of intimacy, memorial, and deeply personal alliance, igniting with Littmann's arpeggiated synth and Byrne's spellbinding voice. The song features a synergy of collaboration that embodies years of creative partnership, culminating in a sweeping, incandescent bridge with Jake Falby's strings. The Greater Wings is a love letter to life, a testimony to the memories that shape our values, and a reminder that music is not bound by time.

"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."