Julia Stone is best known as 1/2 of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Australian brother/sister duo, Angus & Julia Stone, who won top honors at the 2010 ARIA Awards in Australia with Album of the Year: Down The Way, and Single of the Year: 'Big Jet Plane.'

The songs on By The Horns were composed in California, refined in France and sculpted in Australia and India, and as the summer turned to fall in New York City, they poured through her hands to the ears and hands of producer Thomas Bartlett who has worked with Doveman, Antony & the Johnsons, and the National and is currently producing upcoming record by Glen Hansard.