Beth Orton "The Ground Above" COLOR:Cigarette Curls Smokey/Translucent Marbled The songs on the album

The songs on the album

The first full-length from Los Angeles' Mt

he delivered a great collection of songs initially titled “Sit Down Young Stranger” to the brass at the new label

"By and By" and "Peach Fuzz”

and hauntingly evocative production

Beth Orton "The Ground Above" COLOR:Cigarette Curls Smokey/Translucent Marbled The songs on the albumIf 2022s album, Weather Alive, lived underwater, suspended, spectral, and dreamlike, The Ground Above marks a resurfacing. It is Beths most direct and unapologetic music to date; profoundly urgent, embodied, and powered by a newfound strength. Where the previous record unfolded in a post ictal, time out of time dreamscape, The Ground Above finds Orton firmly back on land, taking a giant intake of air. It documents survival, integration, renewal, and