The Greater Wings
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
9/10
sang Julie Byrne on 2017’s “Follow My Voice”. A startling declaration from her second album , it nails the motifs that continue to shape her songs. Aloneness and its non-identical twin, loneliness, are feelings Byrne, an only child, has turned this way and that in examination of her largely itinerant life. “The green” is the natural world, which she describes in rapturous yet unfussy poeticism, as you might expect of someone who studied for a degree in environmental science and