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10.0
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10.0 |
The Guardian
Recorded both before and after the death of a friend and collaborator, the US singer-songwriter’s new album feels as though it sits outside time and space
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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
After the album closes with a hushed piano ode to letting go ("Death Is the Diamond," one of a handful of songs here that evidence Byrne writing on piano for the first time), listeners can only hope that she doesn't go another six years between albums
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9.0
134529
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
An intimate yet expansive masterpiece rooted in loss and grief
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9.0
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9.0 |
Uncut
Here are profound expressions of timeless love, nostalgic memories of relationships past, reflections on fulfillment, grief, desire, belonging and habitual non-belonging. Print edition only
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9.0
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9.0 |
Clash
A stunning experience, shrouding loss in beauty
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8.5
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8.5 |
Pitchfork
Completed after the death of her producer, collaborator, and close friend, the New York singer-songwriter’s album envisions mourning as a form of meditative practice and constant renewal
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8.3
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8.3 |
Beats Per Minute
It’s a beautiful testament to life and to the people we love and that keep us going, physically and spiritually
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8.1
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8.1 |
Paste Magazine
The singer’s third album is beautiful and frequently sublime
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
A sonically patient, cinematic and hopeful record, The Greater Wings grabs you and pulls you down into Byrne’s slowly breathing world of all-encompassing grief
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
Stands as both love letter and elegy and encompasses the deeply held emotions of both. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
Her third album displays a fearless progression from her previous work, a leap forward linked to tragedy in Byrne’s own life
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8.0
134535
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Julie Byrne is a folk-inclined singer-songwriter of rare intensity, and 'The Greater Wings' is even more potent than what came before
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
On her spellbinding third album, Julie Byrne allows love, nature, life, death and memory to bleed together as a single entity in constant motion
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8.0
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8.0 |
musicOMH
New York based singer songwriter’s third album represents a career-best work that serves both as a tribute to and means of overcoming a life sadly gone
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7.6
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7.6 |
Northern Transmissions
The Greater Wings is easy listening that’ll innocuously cut deep with its heartbreaking revelations
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