Beth Orton Returns With “The Ground Above”

Beth Orton Returns With “The Ground Above”

The singer-songwriter is readying a new phase after 2022’s Weather Alive

Beth Orton Releases New Single ‘The Ground Above’

Beth Orton has returned with a single, ‘The Ground Above’. About the sprawling, meditative track, the veteran singer-songwriter had this to say in a press release: “We are all vulnerable beings living out invincible lives.” Check out its accompanying video, directed by Imogen Knight and Joseph Lynn, below. On Instagram, Orton elaborated: “Linear time has no place in music. I find myself trying to iron out my brain like a map, to show what starte…

Beth Orton returns with elemental poetry on “The Ground Above”

English songwriter Beth Orton has released a new single called “The Ground Above”, her first new music since the sensational 2022 album Weather Alive. The new track is an eight minute salvo in which we hear Orton in full control of her abilities. We start in a fairly spare setting where her grizzled vocal unfolds some immediately captivating images (“I’m invincible as grief / Violent as a blade of spring released / Ecstatic as a mother’s love / …

Beth Orton Shares Powerful New Single “The Ground Above”

According to Pitchfork.com, Beth Orton is back with her first new music since 2022’s revelatory Weather Alive. “The Ground Above" reunites the singer-songwriter with Shahzad Ismaily, who played on that last record, along with drummer Vishal Nayak, pianist Sam Beste, trumpeter Christos Stylianides, and guitarists Grey

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Photo: Kasia Wozniak Beth Orton has returned with a new single, The Ground Above.

Beth Orton Shares New Single 'The Ground Above': Listen

Veteran UK singer-songwriter Beth Orton has never been afraid to play around with genre or to stretch her sound out in all kinds of different directions. Over the years, she’s collaborated with people like the Chemical Brothers and Fuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung. In 2022, she released Weather Alive, a stirring and powerful record that she… The post Beth Orton – “The Ground Above” appeared first on Stereogum.