Rooms with walls and windows

"Seattle vocalist/guitarist Julie Byrne's Rooms With Walls & Windows feels like a secret she's keeping from you, even when it is safely in your headphones. Her version of folk, a whisper bordering on an ambient hum, will be familiar to fans of early Cat Power, or Grouper's Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill".

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"Records like this usually succeed through directness, but Julia Byrne brilliantly subverts this old truism. She starts from positions of clarity, and makes things vaguer - both sonically and lyrically - and creates a subjective reflection on past relationships and abandoned narratives. It's an immersive listen with absolutely no breaks from its fragile atmosphere; a beautiful and beguiling record, full of space, absence, and mixed emotions".

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