Tracklist
1 | Wisdom Teeth Song | 4:40 | |
2 | Young Wife | 2:16 | |
3 | Attached to Us Like Butcher Wrap | 4:35 | |
4 | Holiday | 2:39 | |
5 | Butter Lamb | 4:25 | |
6 | Piano Music | 1:45 | |
7 | Prism Song | 3:37 | |
8 | Marmalade | 4:46 | |
9 | Vertical Ray | 3:02 | |
10 | Emeralds | 3:12 | |
11 | Keep on Raging | 3:18 | |
12 | Piano Music for Lucy | 3:43 |
Rooms With Walls and Windows was the debut album by Seattle-by-way-of-Chicago-by-way-of-Buffalo singer, songwriter & guitarist Julie Byrne. Blending psychedelic and traditional folk elements, Julie Byrne creates a highly personal and quietly mystical world that echoes the early work of Leonard Cohen & Vashti Bunyan.
Rooms With Walls and Windows' twelve tracks were collected from two limited edition cassette releases, recorded between 2011 & 2012 by Jake Acosta in Chicago, Illinois. Each song was recorded live, with Julie accompanying herself on fingerpicked acoustic guitar. Rooms With Walls and Windows was lovingly remastered by Owen Ashworth & Matthew Barnhart.
Julie Byrne released her second album Not Even Happiness in January to mass acclaim and will take the songs from her two albums on the road throughout the whole 2017.
"...deserves a place in your collection between Joni Mitchell and Cat Power" The Times
"Her version of folk, a whisper bordering on an ambient hum, will be familiar to fans of early Cat Power or Grouper, as will her ability to mine the uncanny from the everyday stuff lying around... Byrne's album sits at the nexus where one melts gorgeously into the other." Pitchfork