BETH ORTON
Aug 18, 2022
4 minutes
Weather Alive
PARTISAN
8/10
Self-produced, viscerally ambient sixth hangs on to love. By Nick Hasted
STORMY psychic and physical weather buffeted Beth Orton as she made this record. When long-standing health issues were correctly diagnosed and medicated in 2014, the ground perversely shifted beneath her feet. Meanwhile, 2016 saw the release of , the most electronic album of a career which has eased between her pioneering ’90s folktronica’s polar extremes. But as this personal flux continued, the organic sound of a battered, stand-up piano in her garden shed became her anchor. Playing this unfamiliar instrument recalled picking up a guitar to write songs in
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