Byrne offers a slow-burning meditation on love as well as the great outdoors (sky, sea and land seem constant companions), reflecting her troubadour existence, summed up in closing track I Live Now As A Singer, on which it is clear she is torn between the notion of roaming and putting down roots.
Julie Byrne
Not Even Happiness.
Basin Rock
• Three and a half stars (out of five)
Single download: Sleepwalker
For those who like: Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Cat Power
- Shane Gilchrist
