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.

*** Enjoy the Episode ***

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