Beth Orton: Classic or Dud?

folk...tronica

"central reservation" was great. it really captures that moment

i just heard/found out about this for the first time like two weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wZrBVWTn8c&feature=related

She popped up at a Sam Amidon concert I went to a couple of months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJzbkvGkQ3g
Still not singing her own songs though.

Well, I knew the track but I never knew about that video for the "Spill" track!

http://i2.cdnds.net/12/28/618x618/music_beth_orton_sugaring_season.jpg

is there a date?

UK=1st Sept, USA=2nd sept.

'Magpie'
'Dawn Chorus'
'Candles'
'Something More Beautiful'
'Call Me The Breeze'
'Poison Tree'
'See Through Blue'
'Last Leaves of Autumn'
'State of Grace'
'Mystery'

i'm excited!

Yaaaay beautiful Beth

New single, "Something More Beautiful". Nice late-summer vibe, but nothing amazing. Still...

http://youtu.be/028lDfUo5MQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il3tU0-qsCM

pretty good! john martyn-y.

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/23/161272941/first-listen-beth-orton-sugaring-season

YAY

pic from that link: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/24/beth_orton_wide-54c1879eb717792d439689b26c4e27d4b28ccbd5-s4.jpg

she looks really great + healthy!

ah, I know that look.

listening to it now on npr - it's beautiful

she's playing philly tmmrw nite. only one thing could stop me from going + that is yom kippur. :(

What a stunning album this is. Loving it.

too short! <- my only complaint

she's 5ft 10

this is excellent. i haven't paid attention to her since central reservation--is there stuff worth checking out? or does "8 years pass..." tell the whole story?

No! Comfort of Strangers is amazing!

i'm ready for a new album

Yeah, said that yesterday, funnily enough

A couple years ago, Alice had got a new iPad mini with her savings. She had been setting up some music on it, and we'd also installed garageband.

Anyway, she was playing what sounded like Beth covering Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" although I hadn't heard about her ever covering that one. Then the penny dropped.

"um, is that you singing?"

"yeah, I was just trying it out"

Of course she wouldn't finish it or let me keep a copy. Kids, eh?

I think the most recent Beth track is one she did with John Grant

i'd love to hear beth cover fleetwood mac

sugaring season still so good

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/mark-lanegan-and-beth-orton-cover-marc-almond-and-nicos-1988-duet

Excellent version of a wonderful song.

Boy I can't believe how much better the superpinkymandy vers of "she cries your name" is over the near hit version from trailer park.

I like that album, generally, yes.

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/477927199/first-listen-beth-orton-kidsticks

Nah, gonna wait..

Stereogum said she got her start singing with the Chemical Brothers and I was mad they forgot William Orbit. That lasted 15minutes.

Until I heard this disc, I didn't realize they orig wanted to go as "Spill."
http://youtu.be/n2TeBrO8pqc?list=PLPAYZ_b8I6eadrlXvxqC4_yR3pVn97tv7

I'll astrally project myself into the life of someone else

Arrived, has it?

i have to admit i've been listening to it all week but yeah it's out now. spotify link: http://open.spotify.com/album/0bJfmxIm5Ttp7b06ImIVpz

I got a notif that it had been despatched yesterday, so I guess it'll be there at home now.

This is so untrendy in 2016 and all the better for it, some of the most immediate melodies she's ever written too. Relieved that despite Andrew Hung's fingerprints it doesn't sound like Fuck Buttons at all.

Just woke up from anasthesialogy w songs from new album in my head so much <3 this woman's music like a live saver

"Snow" specifically and the "came to life" part

She sounds like a moron

https://twitter.com/MichelCicero/status/736555670590230529?s=09

She has issued a statement, I'd paste it here but I don't think I can on this.

Jay Babcock
4 hrs ·
UPDATE --> BETH ORTON HAS APOLOGIZED AND REMOVES VIDEO
"I am so sorry. I feel sick with disgust. I was told the tree was already dead. I will take the video down now. Please let me know what I can do to help make some kind of amends. I did not direct the video and was following direction but now I know what I have been part of I feel utterly devastated and of course take responsibility for my part. I am truly and deeply sorry."

APPALLED WITH BETH ORTON
@BethOrtonOfficial vandalizes an ancient joshua tree with spray paint in a new promotional music video. This will kill the tree. This is illegal. This is disgusting. Beth, take the video down NOW. Come back to Joshua Tree and clean up the destruction you've done. https://www.facebook.com/BethOrtonOfficial/?fref=ts

Yeah, this has not gone down well, to say the least.

this isn't abjectly terrible, but she's displaying some significant degradation in her vocal abilities; there are some more recent ones with a band that are more troubling. some of it also seems kind of like nervousness (her hands seem to be trembling as well), so maybe this will improve as she plays out more again.

― akm, Saturday, October 1, 2022 11:51 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i'm sorry but this is a bizarre post. she seems fully in control of her abilities in that video to me.

Has some good Marianne Faithfull vibes. Had me wanting to put on Destroyer’s “Kaputt” and some Blue Nile right after.

wow I love this album

it is something else. edged out the shearwater album in number of plays this year for me; they're very similar in ways.

Does the melody of 'Friday Night' remind anyone else of Springsteen's 'Incident on 57th Street?'.

I get Downtown Train

album of the year for sure

xxpost it's After the Gold Rush isn't it?

I hear ATG on (some of) the verses, and DT on the chorus; "well, I've been dreaming" certainly could be a deliberate nod to the former

amazing live show. i'd say catch it but apparently it was the last night of the tour

i lucked out and caught it on a complete whim. i was on a cross-town bus on my way home around 8pm, saw her name on the marquee through the window, got out at the next stop and bought a ticket

person sitting next to me was a middle-aged dude who'd also come alone, and had a bouquet of flowers in the seat next to him which he gave to beth when she took the stage. he sang along to all the older material and repeated "wow. superstar. wow" to himself in between each song

her band were incredible and completely adorable. beth is the cool gen x aunt leading a group of shaggy group of sick chops millenials

she played the whole new album, and a bunch of back catalogue stuff. took requests and played some stuff solo too. the last song of the encore was a super rocking version of "shopping trolley" off comfort of strangers, which she says she regrets never touring (since she "got preggo" right after it came out)

lovely write-up

I love the idea that someone might get so much enjoyment from an artist that they'd be thinking "Wow. Superstar. Wow", though I do wonder how the artist might feel about someone bringing flowers (not that practical, unless it was their home-town show ... and maybe not even then).

Note: love this album while not thinking of myself as a massive Beth Orton fan.

yeah I saw her SF show and it was excellent, and my concerns about her voice not quite holding up were mostly unfounded, I think it's gotten stronger with this tour and the new album held up surprisingly well when performed live.

Nice conversation between Beth and Alabaster DePlume: https://www.talkhouse.com/beth-orton-talks-with-alabaster-deplume-on-the-talkhouse-podcast/