On her ninth album, Beth Orton settles into a spacious, grief-tinged sound with contributions from Tom Skinner and Adrian Utley.
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On her ninth album, Beth Orton settles into a spacious, grief-tinged sound with contributions from Tom Skinner and Adrian Utley.
The English songwriter’s eighth studio album refuses pessimism, instead finding presence in piano-led arrangements and a weathered, central voice.
This Friday’s releases trace artists who work with scale and self in equal measure. Some expand into conceptual or immersive worlds that demand sustained attention. Others turn toward renewal, independence or precise moments of groove and reflection. Muse channel a famous radio anomaly into theatrical space-rock that treats cosmic scale as personal metaphor. Ibeyi step …
Artists including Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, Anna Calvi, and Rufus Wainwright performed at London’s Barbican Centre in a concert honoring the late Marianne Faithfull.
