Beth Orton- The Ground AboveLabel: Partisan Released 6 26 2026 A testament to her artistry, the album The Ground Above is Ortons most direct and unapologetic music to date; urgent, raw, embodied and emotionally fearless, moving between subconscious expression and expansive, timeless song craft. Her voice, as distinctive as ever, delivers melodies reminiscent of classic songbook form. Throughout the album, Orton documents survival and renewal, motherhood and identity, political

retro-futurist body music ("Dry

and mixed the tracks with Nashville

His work has influenced both country and rock artists such as the Rolling Stones and Linda Ronstadt by blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other

The Voice of Love

and Toshinori Kondo on trumpet -- it roughly builds on the series of collaborations that had featured on Centazzo's 1978 Ictus LP U

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Everything (Live at The Greek Theatre

His samples destroyed by an escaped circus ape on a rampage (isn't that always the way)

Girl Keeps Coming Apart

Toby Tarnow

setting the scene

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