This Friday, Portishead singer Beth Gibbons will release her debut solo album, “Lives Outgrown.” After the two previously released singles, “Floating On A Moment” and “Reaching Out”, today the English artist has released a new song with related video clip: it is titled “Lost Changes”. Below you can see the accompanying video, which marks the directorial debut of British photographer Juno Calypso.
“It has been a long journey that has lasted more than a decade.” Thus Beth Gibbons announced her solo recording comeback. The album – explains the Portishead singer – “as usual reflects what is happening inside me, my 50th birthday has brought forward a new horizon. It was a moment of farewell to family, friends and also to who I was before, so the lyrics reflect my anxieties and sleepless night meditations, hence 'Lives Outgrown'.” Among the themes of the songs, “the way we experience emotional or psychological passages in our lives”, but also “the moment we leave this planet and the fears for our journey into the unknown”. These are therefore “songs that address the anxieties linked to the fear of growing old. I realized what life was like without hope. And it was a sadness that I had never felt. Before, I had the possibility of changing my future, but when you clash with your body, you can't force it to do something it doesn't want to do. It's also a goodbye album.”
Also the sound of the album – said the English artist – was born through a process: “I wanted to move away from breakbeats and snare drums, focusing on the woody texture of the timbres, away from the sweetish dependence of the high frequencies”.
Formidable vocalist of Portishead for three studio albums and one live album that left their mark on the history of trip-hop, Beth Gibbons made her solo debut in 2002 with “Out Of Season” together with Rustin Man, then in 2019 she released “Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3” with Krzysztof Penderecki conducting the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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