Beth Orton rises through The Ground Above with self-produced grace and weathered light

Beth Orton’s The Ground Above arrives on 26 June via Partisan, and it feels like another chapter in the quiet second life she began with Weather Alive. Orton self-produced the album, working with a core group that includes Shahzad Ismaily, Sam Beste, Chris Vatalaro, Vishal Nayak, Paul Butler, Christos Styliande, Tom Herbert and Dave Okumu, with much of the performance captured live in the room. That matters because this is music that needs breath around it. The album’s first half is described as fragmented and searching, while the second opens into warmer melodic forms, which sounds like Orton treating the record as emotional terrain rather than a collection of tidy singles. After three decades of being both adjacent to scenes and somehow outside them, she still understands how folk, electronic texture and adult heartbreak can share the same small, flickering lamp.

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