She did 'dig it' on a Mojo 'tribute to Let It Be' album, 'rocking out' actually suits her she should do it more often..
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 May 2012 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
listening to central reservation tnite. pretty great.
― Mordy, Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
8 years pass...
― andrew m., Saturday, 2 June 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
folk...tronica
― andrew m., Saturday, 2 June 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
"central reservation" was great. it really captures that moment
― teledyldonix, Saturday, 2 June 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
i just heard/found out about this for the first time like two weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wZrBVWTn8c&feature=related
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Saturday, 2 June 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
She popped up at a Sam Amidon concert I went to a couple of months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJzbkvGkQ3gStill not singing her own songs though.
― Moon Fuxx (Jill), Saturday, 2 June 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I knew the track but I never knew about that video for the "Spill" track!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://i2.cdnds.net/12/28/618x618/music_beth_orton_sugaring_season.jpg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
is there a date?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
UK=1st Sept, USA=2nd sept.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
'Magpie' 'Dawn Chorus' 'Candles' 'Something More Beautiful' 'Call Me The Breeze' 'Poison Tree' 'See Through Blue' 'Last Leaves of Autumn' 'State of Grace' 'Mystery'
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
i'm excited!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Yaaaay beautiful Beth
― Ówen P., Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
New single, "Something More Beautiful". Nice late-summer vibe, but nothing amazing. Still...
http://youtu.be/028lDfUo5MQ
― DavidM, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il3tU0-qsCM
― DavidM, Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
pretty good! john martyn-y.
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/23/161272941/first-listen-beth-orton-sugaring-season
― DavidM, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
YAY
― Mordy, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
pic from that link: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/24/beth_orton_wide-54c1879eb717792d439689b26c4e27d4b28ccbd5-s4.jpg
she looks really great + healthy!
― Mordy, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
ah, I know that look.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
listening to it now on npr - it's beautiful
― Mordy, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
she's playing philly tmmrw nite. only one thing could stop me from going + that is yom kippur. :(
― Mordy, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
What a stunning album this is. Loving it.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
too short! <- my only complaint
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
she's 5ft 10
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― adam, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
No! Comfort of Strangers is amazing!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
i'm ready for a new album
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, said that yesterday, funnily enough
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2014 07:45 (nine years ago) link
I think the most recent Beth track is one she did with John Grant
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
i'd love to hear beth cover fleetwood mac
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 October 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
sugaring season still so good
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/mark-lanegan-and-beth-orton-cover-marc-almond-and-nicos-1988-duet
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Excellent version of a wonderful song.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Thursday, 12 May 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
I like that album, generally, yes.
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 May 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/477927199/first-listen-beth-orton-kidsticks
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link
Nah, gonna wait..
― Mark G, Friday, 20 May 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
Stereogum said she got her start singing with the Chemical Brothers and I was mad they forgot William Orbit. That lasted 15minutes.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 20 May 2016 01:52 (eight years ago) link
Until I heard this disc, I didn't realize they orig wanted to go as "Spill."http://youtu.be/n2TeBrO8pqc?list=PLPAYZ_b8I6eadrlXvxqC4_yR3pVn97tv7
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Friday, 20 May 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
I'll astrally project myself into the life of someone else
― Mordy, Friday, 27 May 2016 11:14 (eight years ago) link
Arrived, has it?
― Mark G, Friday, 27 May 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Friday, 27 May 2016 11:29 (eight years ago) link
I got a notif that it had been despatched yesterday, so I guess it'll be there at home now.
― Mark G, Friday, 27 May 2016 11:39 (eight years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 27 May 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
Just woke up from anasthesialogy w songs from new album in my head so much <3 this woman's music like a live saver
― Mordy, Friday, 27 May 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
"Snow" specifically and the "came to life" part
― Mordy, Friday, 27 May 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
She sounds like a moron
https://twitter.com/MichelCicero/status/736555670590230529?s=09
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
“This is how I sing. This is my voice now,” she said. “This is who I am and this is what life has made of me.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/arts/music/beth-orton-weather-alive.html?smid=url-share&fbclid=IwAR04XuzWFeXkOcEivXxBfgQC2orGuFi6xDTeGCYYpwgchSmQJM0zs1pZBAc
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 1 October 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
Ach, paywalled
― Mark G, Sunday, 2 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
https://archive.ph/ivmzW
― doug watson, Sunday, 2 October 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
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.
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 2 October 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
Has some good Marianne Faithfull vibes. Had me wanting to put on Destroyer’s “Kaputt” and some Blue Nile right after.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 9 October 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
wow I love this album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
it is something else. edged out the shearwater album in number of plays this year for me; they're very similar in ways.
― akm, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Does the melody of 'Friday Night' remind anyone else of Springsteen's 'Incident on 57th Street?'.
― aphoristical, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
I get Downtown Train
― fetter, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 07:34 (one year ago) link
album of the year for sure
― flopson, Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
xxpost it's After the Gold Rush isn't it?
― ascai, Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
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
― rob, Thursday, 27 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
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)
― flopson, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 07:32 (one year ago) link
lovely write-up
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 09:03 (one year ago) link
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).
― djh, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Note: love this album while not thinking of myself as a massive Beth Orton fan.
― djh, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
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.
― akm, Thursday, 24 November 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
Nice conversation between Beth and Alabaster DePlume: https://www.talkhouse.com/beth-orton-talks-with-alabaster-deplume-on-the-talkhouse-podcast/
― (picnic, lightning) very very frightening (Chinaski), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link