You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever: CD Julie Byrne multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte (Jay Som

multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte (Jay Som

After over a decade away

Step into the world

and ‘Roads’

You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever: CD Julie Byrne multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte (Jay SomA collection of warmly melodic electronic sketches, with tracks alternately drifting beatless on the breeze or underpinned by lo fi drums, sometimes barely held together with a delicate construction of odd synth patches and ping pong percussion. Each piece is short and to the point, a record of perfect miniatures. Whilst this description may sound utopian, the album is conceived around themes of late stage capitalist brutality, hyper consumerism,