Not Even Happiness
by Julie Byrne
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Julie Byrne bestography
Not Even Happiness is ranked 2nd best out of 4 albums by Julie Byrne on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Julie Byrne is The Greater Wings which is ranked number 3844 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 385.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 07/07/2026 22:44 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,158 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2026 19:56 |  DanielNunes93 | 2,808 | 61/100 |
| ! | 02/25/2026 13:26 | TonySayers61 | 25,074 | 64/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2024 08:43 | LT228 | 245 | 86/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2024 08:40 | LT22 | 272 | 86/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 17% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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Sleepwalker, Follow My Voice, and I Live Now As A Singer are fantastic. Natural Blue is pretty good. The rest are just okay. Pretty boring for the most part, but those top three tracks are enough for me to give it a 70.
RoundTheBend 01/27/2018 03:21 | #206598 | TOP COMMENT
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Quite beautiful. It's like Nick Drake and Enya (at moments). At the same time, it does lack any real dynamics.
allgood 06/29/2017 08:38 | #193418
it's not for me, too boring and flat
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A little surprised I actually enjoyed listening to this album. I guess I am getting old :-/
The second half loses me a little, but 'Sleepwalker' haunts me through a few songs.
It's hard to pull off a Nick Drake-esque singer songwriter record in 2017 without sounding horribly derivative...and Byrne succeeds.
Her music reminds me of Vashti Bunyan.
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