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.
Welcome to the 17th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Matt the Raven, Mark Moody, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 25 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 11.
'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.
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Beth Gibbons Escapes Portishead Grooves For Experimental Chances On Meticulous 'Lives Outgrown' (ALBUM REVIEW) glidemagazine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from glidemagazine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.