Julie Byrne shares new single “Moonless”

Julie Byrne releases a lyric video for “Moonless,” the first song she has ever written and performed on the piano and the final single from her highly anticipated and life-affirming new album, The Greater Wings, out July 7th via Ghostly International.

“Moonless” is an ode to the glistening darkness, partially written on an outlying island of southern Portugal where Byrne was completing an artist residency. “I remember walking through the dune systems on the ocean side of Culatra, the noises of the docks, the scent of tidal flats. The land itself, as a coastal formation, in a constant state of movement between erosion and growth.” The hypnotic piano ballad is a portal into the lost, late night with beckoning sensorial detail: voices rising through the smoke, the tactility of names carved in the table, wind moving in off the ocean, across skin. Just as the scene begins to feel eternal, Byrne upends notions of the torch song. “Moonless” does not pine for the return of another but instead speaks to the alleviation of no longer waiting for someone’s love. “Something I love about being a songwriter, especially as a queer woman, is being able to have the last word in my work, becoming myself line by line. This is a breakup song, and it’s the first song I wrote on piano.” Her new instrument fades into pools of eventide. A bare constellation of strings end the story like sparks rising in the darkness, then vanishing into ash.

Additionally, Byrne has expanded her US tour, adding a record release show at Brooklyn, NY’s Public Records and two shows at Tubby’s in Kingston, NY. All dates below.

TOUR DATES:

7/15 – Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s

7/16 – Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s

7/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records *

7/23 – Hebden, UK @ Bridge Trades Club

7/26 – London, UK @ Kings Place Hall ~

7/28 – Brighton, UK @ St Barts ~

8/18-20 – Brecon Beacons, Wales @ Green Man Festival

9/5 – Seattle,WA @ Fremont Abbey

9/6 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall

9/8 – San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall

9/9 – Felton, CA @ Felton Music Hall

9/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

9/14 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet’s

9/19 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd ^

9/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church (Sanctuary) ^

9/21 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom ^

9/29 – Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre ^

9/30 – Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom ^

11/16 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

11/17 – Glasgow, UK @ Mono

11/18 – Manchester, UK @ St Michael’s Church

11/22 – Bristol, UK @ The Jam Jar

11/24 – Limerick, IE @ Dolans Upstairs

11/25 – Dublin, IE @ Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

11/26 – Belfast, IE @ The Black Box

* w/ Taryn Blake Miller (fka Your Friend)

~ w/ Juni Habel

^ w/ LEYA