Written and developed over the last five years, ‘The Greater Wings’ tracks through love and loss while also reaching into the future as Julie Byrne expands her musical palette from singer-songwriter into broader, electronic soundscapes. Begun with writing partner and producer Eric Littmann, who sadly passed away in 2021, the album broadly tracks Byrne processing the grief of that loss. There’s a deftness to the tracks here that is both fragile yet graceful that stands out as much in the transitions as within the tracks themselves, as when harps close ‘Summer’s End’ before finger-picked guitar and swelling electronics open ‘Lightning Comes Up From the Ground’. At its most minimal, like on ‘Conversation Is A Flowstate’, Byrne’s vocals become fully absorbing, brimming with emotion and truly captivating.