Bordering on too beautiful, Julie Byrne’s The Greater Wings, released on Ghostly International last month, is instead perfectly balanced on the edge.

The older we get, the more difficult it becomes not to compare new things to things we already know. I view this as a kind of curse. A disease.

Covers can be tricky. My perfect balance between original and redo finds no set formula but one commonality among the covers I love is listening to the new brings the old along with it, like the presence of a dear departed friend.