Ep. 37 | Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings

Welcome to Episode 37 of This is Not Happening. An Album of the
Month Podcast where in Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one
of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play 'Spin it or Bin it'. 
This is where we pick a theme and each select a song that
represents that theme. We judge each others selections by asking
the question 'Spin It or Bin It'? This month, we get pretty
emotional about Julie Byrne's latest album 'The Greater Wings' in
Part 1. In Part 2, Spin it or Bin it theme is 'no human sounds'.
All will be explained ...

Part 1 | Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings
It's Joey's choice this month and for the 2nd time in
This is Not Happening history he chooses a beautiful album by
Julie Byrne. We're in the indie-folk-ambience hinterlands from a
stylist perspective. From an emotional perspective we're right at
the intersection of beauty, grief, loss, hope and reflection. We
talk about what this album is, how there's more than one way to
experience it, our favourite tracks and what it means to us.


Visit Julie Byrne's website here

Listen to this stunning album here

Buy some of Julie's stuff here



Here are a few links for some background;


The Metacritic page for 'The Greater Wings'

Marty's Music Talk interview with Julie is here 

Another interview with Julie, this time on KEXP
Podcasts



Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | 'No Human Sounds'
This one was way harder than it sounded at first. The
theme this month is 'No Human Sounds'. We started with no vocals,
then decided no human sounds at all, then we added that it
couldn't be 'dance music'. Joey suggested we define 'dance
music', he got laughed at ... then we got into an argument about
all of Guys choices being dance music. 

We all chose a track that fits the theme then ask the others a
simple question 'spin it or bin it?'


Guy chose Vision of Self by Rival Consoles

Nolan chose Time is the Enemy by Quantic

Joey chose Transitions by Beastie Boys

David chose Speed of Life by David Bowie



In order to select our tracks we shortlist 4 each and create a 16
track playlist that can be found here.

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