Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness [CD]

Basin Rock

£10.64

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: BR001CD
Barcode: 5060168041173
Release Date: 26 May 2023
Genre: Singer-Songwriter / Folk

VERY LIMITED 2023 REPRESS ON 180GM NATURAL BLUE VINYL.

“Blending folk, new age, and silence, Not Even Happiness is a balm.” 8.3 Pitchfork

"Here is something special" The Times - 5 STARS

'Unique and intimate atmosphere' The Guardian - 4 STARS

"Majestic." - Daily Mirror - 4 STARS

UNCUT 8/10 LEAD REVIEW: “HER UNAPOLOGETIC INDEPENDENCE RECALLS THAT OF ANGEL OLSEN, ANOTHER ARTIST WHO ARRIVED VIA INCREDIBLY LO-FI TAPES DUBBED BY TINY REGIONAL LABELS.”

“ Recalling fellow outsider folk figures Anne Briggs and Karen Dalton. What really makes it special, though, is the poetic and profound way she returns, time and again, to the dilemma of making love and intimacy work when you just want to follow your calling.”**** MOJO 4/5 LEAD REVIEW

NME LEAD 4/5 REVIEW : 'It's only January...but one of the finest albums of the year' 'Its gentle , melting quality is restorative' – 8/10 LOUD AND QUIET ALBUM OF THE WEEK

Album of the Week https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/julie-byrne-not-even-happiness

Album of the Day on 6 Music

"A Linda Perhacs for the modern Laurel Canyon set? Perhaps." 4/5 Record Collector

'Hushed songs that lie close to early Cat Power, Nick Drake and a more sombre Joni Mitchell" – SUNDAY TIMES

Julie Byrne’s much loved second album Not Even Happiness (2017) added atmospheric instrumentation and electronic flourishes to her unusual guitar tunings and fingerpicked melodies, moving the songs from the front-porch into subtle
anthemia.

Whether witnessing the Pacific Northwest for the first time (‘Melting Grid’), the morning sky in Colorado after staying up through the night at a house party in the mountains of Boulder (‘Natural Blue’), recording the passage of freight trains on the outskirts of Buffalo, New York ('Interlude'), or a journey fragrant with rose water; reading Frank O’Hara aloud from the passengers seat during a drive through the desert of Utah into the rainforest of Washington State (‘All The Land Glimmered
Beneath’), Not Even Happiness is Julie’s beguilingly ode to the fringes of life.

Tracklisting:
1. Follow My Voice 2. Sleepwalker 3. Melting Grid 4. Natural Blue 5. Interlude 6. Morning Dove 7. All The Land Glimmered Beneath 8. Sea As It Glides 9. I Live Now As A Singer