“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