The Glasshouse

Ethereal. Hypnotic. Love at first listen.

Julie Byrne’s moved through the world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the public eye.

Her music conjures up an immersive atmosphere. Summoning both the expansive and the intimate; the evocative songcraft transcends genre as it flows between her signature fingerpicked guitar and a palette of synth tones.

It’s the sound of resource, friendship that was never without romance, loyalty that burns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned in unrepeatable moments — raw, gorgeous, and wild.

In recent years you might have caught synth maestro Modema performing alongside the likes of The Orielles and Tom Sharkett of WH Lung. Now, you can find her perched between the worlds of electronica, ambient music and experimental pop, occupying the same space as ML Buch, Jenny Hval & Caroline Polachek. Her debut single ‘Running Back’ was praised by Clash magazine, who referred to the track as “a pirouetting piece of synth-pop abstraction” which “sweeps you up in its percussive rush”. The track is a patchwork; fragments of vocals top somnambulistic synth lines & scattered drum patterns while the basslines contain multitudes, fluctuating from gentle melodies to pulsating rhythms.