Lives Outgrown
Thirty years after stepping into the spotlight, the Portishead singer reintroduces herself with her debut solo album. History weighs heavy on her songs, but she takes pains to avoid her musical past.
Beth Gibbons' first solo studio record is a mesmerising collection from a singular talent and voice
Like a Sybil in the throes of a mid-life crisis, Lives Outgrown sees Gibbons delivering hushed, tortured commentary on life’s inevitabilities – death, loss, accidents – the works.
Beth Gibbons took a decade to concoct her first-ever solo studio album and came out with bleak, orchestral, funereal songs about motherhood, mortality, and everything caught in-between.
On her long-awaited debut solo album, Portishead singer Beth Gibbons has channelled her midlife experiences into a haunting collection of torch songs.
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Beth Gibbons’ Lives Outgrown is a weary but resolute dispatch from the back half of existence.
Thirty years after the release of Portishead’s debut, Beth Gibbons finally makes her first solo album, Lives Outgrown.
‘We all know what’s coming,’ sings Gibbons on an elegiac, folk-imbued record that’s been 10 years in the making
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown album review: The clearest view of the Portishead singer yet, on her long awaited debut
The Portishead singer’s first official solo album, ‘Lives Outgrown,’ is as captivating as it is devastating.
'Lives Outgrown' seems like an outgrowth of where Beth Gibbons' mind and talents have taken her in the past decade, which is to ruminate on how life is a vapor.
Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons album review by Christopher Patterson for Northern Transmissions. The LP drops on May 10th via Domino Records
In the Portishead singer’s singular, astonishing soundworld, these songs sit in autumnal gloom but are occasionally dappled with warmth and light
Portishead singer has channelled grief and trauma into a meditation on metamorphoses that is both clear and dewy-eyed
Beth Gibbons' Lives Outgrown finds this singular voice in British music exploring new depths in middle age