Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Out Of Season

Forget Zero 7 / Lemon Jelly / Sia / Susannah + Magic Orchestra etc etc - all that female-fronted chill-out shit really is as bad as you think, but this is something very different and very special, in my ears.

I think it's up there with anything by Portishead and Talk Talk, which is no meat feat, eh.

The rest of it, beyond "tom the model", I don't remember. I've played the first song a lot, and the rest very infrequently. Also, most of it feels like an Autumn album, so its erm...out of season.. at the moment.

I was thinking about this album earlier, actually. About time it had another play.

Is it the drizzle and the damp, do you think?

Fantastic album. I think "mysteries" is still my favourite song of the 00s so far.

When I heard Portishead were working on a new album, my first thought was that I'd much rather hear a new Gibbons solo album.

Then "Candy Says" cover sucks, though.

so today i dug this out along with the Mark Hollis album.
did the all important ILM search only to find that I am not alone in putting these 2 albums together.
i suspect that out of season is going to get a lot of love during this week of late shifts.

I just bought this over the weekend! It sounded great last night.

this is where i admit that i only just bought the old portishead albums last week.

Amazing how people can buy albums which aren't out for another four weeks.

Amazing how people lack basic reading comprehension.

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To be honest that was a gaffe and a haffe.

Dingbod Gaffney's Gaffes.

The James Yorkston/Rustin Man album of a year or two ago is pretty good too. Again, a similar Talk Talk-ish feel.

I love this record but, for me, it's not a Spring or Summer record. It's a bit out of season for this. This is a classic late Autumn record. A chill in the air, a sweater, some crunchy leaves, etc.

exactly, I first heard this in November, in London, and nothing could be more perfect

I love this record. Anybody knows where to find a vinyl copy of it? Or has a spare copy I could get you rid of?

what a great album.
genuine shiver-up-the-spine moments throughout.

New solo album forthcoming:

http://pitchfork.com/news/51147-portisheads-beth-gibbons-to-release-new-solo-album-on-domino/

let's hope for harris/webb involvement!

psyyyyched

Great news! Probably means the Portishead album is still another five years away but hey, she hasn't an album that's less than great so hopefully this one will be too.

Apparently Billy Gibbons is taking her place in Rustin Man.

Could be challops but 'Out of Season' has more replay value for me than any Portishead album.

i agree, and i'm v much looking forward to the new one

i'm with moka re 'out of season'

Found this on a vinyl bin for two dollars and bought it. Mint condition. Damn philistines it was barely played. Their loss, my win. This is a perfect album for this season (some pun could be done there but I'm too lazy to work it out).

It's been more than a decade. What say you ILM? Also what happened to that followup that was mentioned a couple of years ago?

this is probably one of my favourite albums ever

I love Portishead but I said it two years ago; this one is the Beth Gibbons related record I keep coming back to. It received mixed reviews and it might have had low sales I suppose but I really want a followup. The best song on P3 is 'the rip' by far and it's indebted to this record... at least it sounds closer to this sound than the first two Portishead albums. I hope it's not the closest thing we ever get to out of season pt2.

I love you Beth Gibbons but you are incredibly effete. 4 albums in 20+ years!? If I had that voice I wouldn't stop collaborating everywhere.

No way. Honestly I think the single most undervalued commodity in modern pop music is MYSTIQUE and Beth has it in spades. I don't want her diluting that by turning up on Father John Misty albums or whatever.

Did this come at some point with a live bonus disc pretty much playing the whole album or was that a boot? I want that.

No way. Honestly I think the single most undervalued commodity in modern pop music is MYSTIQUE and Beth has it in spades. I don't want her diluting that by turning up on Father John Misty albums or whatever.

^^^^cosign x a million

Hah why did you have to do such a nefarious pairing? I meant collabs like out of season or that black sabbath cover she did. They work because they are leftfield collabs with out of the spotlight artists, I'm not saying she collabs with father john misty, or gorillaz, or big boi. She could keep her mystique by releasing every now and then music with relatively unknown bands or artists with an inclination towards the avant garde.

Specially with that voice of hers. At this rate of release she only has two more albums before she is too old to tune the same way she does.

yeah I love this album. bought it when it came out when I was in London for a few weeks and listened to it nonstop.

thus, it is in the quintessential english fall album for me

classic all the way

this is probably one of my favourite albums ever

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I never expected a member of portishead and a member of talk talk to be snappy with a follow-up tho tbh

What are the other Talk Talk guys up to, Hollis aside?

This hasn't really clicked for me until today. The Wyatt thing is clear but, if anything, it reminds me of a muted Super Furries or even Gorky's.

It took a while to make the first album, the second one seems to have come about a lot quicker: Clockdust, to be released in March!

Das Triadische Ballett on the cover! A very encouraging sign even if this is Bethless.

Great news! Live dates too

Listening to the new album now, feels more restrained but more confident than Drift Codes. Voice perhaps a bit stronger.

Clockdust has proved to be a lockdown staple for me, I prefer it to Drfit Code. Also being listening a lot to the first Orang album which has recently appeared on Spotify (or maybe I just couldn't find it before - Orang is not the most searchable name). Beth Gibbons appears on it, pre-Portishead (I think).

completely missed that coming out, so looking forward to giving it a listen.

sheesh, i completely missed it too.

finally getting to this. even on first impression, i have to agree with fetter: it feels more immediately unified and reassured than drift code — and i thought that album was fantastic. however, clockdust definitely seems like it's of a part with drift code; like he's been making these orchestral, vaguely folky recordings in private for the past two decades or so and what's on these albums is just what he's chosen to let the rest of the world hear. and who knows how many more of these easily digestible, endlessly rewarding fourty minute albums he seems to just have laying around, waiting to be assembled.

it's very comfortable music that is simultaneously mystifying in the most charming way.

thanks for the revive, fetter. probably would have passed me by otherwise.

also "night in evening city" is absolutely perfect.

after a few listens, i simultaneously love and hate how this ends with the psychedelic buzzing chorus of "man with a remedy." i want there to be something else after the song just falls apart. . . like a short reprise of "rubicon song" or something else that closes the deal more resoundingly. the way it ends as is very much feels like a cliffhanger.

also "night in evening city" is absolutely perfect.

oh yeah, definitely. I've read he was in a "reggae band" before Talk Talk - you can almost hear it here.

I've never heard an artist sound more like another artist (Robert Wyatt, voice obviously, but even melodic approach and overall aesthetic) and yet be SO FANTASTIC. I mean--I think even Mr. Wyatt would have to tip his hat.

I just found out he already has a second album out, so that's the listening docket for the evening. Very excited.

agreed. you'll love clockdust. i like it even more than the first one.

New album on the way, and a lovely first track has already appeared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldrx0eSqV-E

reminds me of sandy denny.

Good song.

"reaching outv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeCBRhoXek

kind of tom waits dark cabaret vibes.

*"reaching out"

Loving this album so far

This is amazing.

It really is something. In love with the production as much as the song writing

She did a fantastic tiny desk show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-DftINZKg

So great, thanks for posting!
Floating On A Moment sounds like a modern day traditional to me, an amazing song

Weird - thought I'd contributed to this thread recently.

Bought the last Beth album and quite liked it but, for some reason, started playing it again and liked it more (Perhaps listening to it with less ... expectation).

It sent me back to Portishead. Fuck, they were (are?) good. I think they became a signifier for *something* but they sound incredible.

Have gone down a rabbit hole of live performances circa the Third album.

This is decent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jSC1kNF6lU