Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh explained

Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh
Type:ep
Artist:Julie Byrne
Cover:Julie Byrne - Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh.jpg
Alt:A dark teal-tinted photo of a heart-shaped ash trash on shag carpeting with a vermilion border
Language:English
Label:Ghostly International
Prev Title:The Greater Wings
Prev Year:2023

Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh is a 2023 extended play from American singer-songwriter Julie Byrne. The album has received positive reviews from critics.

Reception

Andrew Sacher of BrooklynVegan included this among the notable releases of the week and wrote that "each song shows off a different side of Julie’s gorgeously somber sound", continuing that the album includes several genres, such as minimalist ambient pop, folk, sophisti-pop, and electro-acoustic. Writing for Spill Magazine, Ljubinko Zivkovic rated this album 9 out of 10, considering it "outstanding" and a great companion to" Byrne's full-length The Greater Wings, released several months earlier, as both have "excellent songwriting, a beautiful voice, and a penchant for arrangements to match". Marc Abbott of Under the Radar rated this album 8 out of 10 stars, calling it "quite possibly the perfect early Christmas present" for being "as sublime as it is subliminal".

Paste ranked this the 24th best EP of the year and critic Madelyn Dawson called it "a perfect end-cap to what The Greater Wings accomplished earlier this year", which "solidifies that this was, without a doubt, Julie Byrne’s year".

Track listing

  1. "’22" (Julie Byrne) – 1:58
  2. "These Days" (Jackson Browne) – 3:33
  3. "Velocity! What About the Inertia!?" (Emily Fontana, lyrical contributions by Byrne) – 2:49
  4. "Entropy Increasing" – 2:59

Personnel

Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh

Additional personnel

See also