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Not Even Happiness

Byrne, Julie

Not Even Happiness

Ba Da Bing!
LP $16.00

01/27/2017 600197013014 

BING 130 


CD $9.50

01/27/2017 600197013021 

BING 130 CD 


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01/27/2017 600197013021 

 


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01/27/2017 600197013021 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Received an 8.3 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork.
  Sometimes it can take years to find your calling. Not so for Julie Byrne, whose power of lyrical expression and musical nous seems inborn. Her second album, Not Even Happiness, has evolved at its own pace. It spans recollections of bustling roadside diners, the stars over the high desert, the aching weariness of change, the wildflowers of the California coast, and the irresolvable mysteries of love. 
Teaching herself guitar, having picked it up when her father became ill and could no longer play, Byrne also admits she can’t read music and doesn’t even listen to it all that much—her own vinyl was the first in her possession. “Without possessing the right words, I’d describe to [producer] Eric Littman (Phantom Posse) and Jake Falby (who contributed strings) the feeling I wanted a song to evoke, or I would take a shot at singing what was in my head. Though over all, their contributions to the record are entirely their own vision and their own power.” 
The follow-up to 2014’s critically lauded Rooms With Walls And Windows, this latest offers a bigger picture through a wider exploration of instruments and atmospherics, revealing an artist who has grown in confidence over time. Whether witnessing the Pacific Northwest for the first time (“Melting Grid”), the morning sky in the mountains of Boulder (“Natural Blue”), or a journey fragrant with rose water or reading Frank O’Hara aloud from the passenger seat during a drive through the Utah desert into the rainforest of Washington State (“The Sea As It Glides”), Not Even Happiness is Byrne’s beguiling ode to the fringes of life.

Tracklist

  1. #1 Follow My Voice

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  2. #2 Sleepwalker

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  3. #3 Melting Grid

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  4. #4 Natural Blue

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  5. #5 Interlude

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  6. #6 Morning Dove

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  7. #7 All The Land Glimmered

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  8. #8 Sea As It Glides

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  9. #9 I Live Now As A Singer

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