Lives Outgrown
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| Released | 17 May 2024 | |||
| Genre | Chamber pop | |||
| Length | 45:51 | |||
| Label | Domino | |||
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Lives Outgrown is the upcoming debut solo studio album by English musician Beth Gibbons, scheduled for release on 17 May 2024 through Domino Recording Company.[1] The album was produced by Gibbons, James Ford and Lee Harris.[2] It was preceded by the singles "Floating on a Moment" and "Reaching Out".[3] The album received positive reviews from critics.
Background and composition[edit]
Gibbons wrote the album over a decade, with topics including "motherhood, anxiety, menopause, and mortality".[1] Gibbons said that the album was directly influenced by the deaths of family and friends over the preceding several years and she "realised what life was like with no hope".[4]
Critical reception[edit]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 90/100[5] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Mojo |   [6] |
| Record Collector | [7] |
| The Skinny | [8] |
| Slant Magazine |  [9] |
| Uncut | 9/10[10] |
| The Wire | [11] |
Lives Outgrown received a score of 90 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on six critics' reviews, which the website categorised as "universal acclaim".[5] Uncut felt that "Lives Outgrown is a quite different prospect to Gibbons' previous work – more intimate, more personal, coloured by the grief and goodbyes she has weathered in recent years. But it is still possible to find a thread that runs from here to Out of Season, and back to Portishead".[10] The Wire called it "timeless and considered" and "a complete, but still complicated, portrait of the intersection of grief and life",[11] and Mojo wrote that while it can "all sound bleak[, ...] Lives Outgrown is also very beautiful".[6]
The Skinny's Patrick Gamble described the album as "a haunting collection of torch songs" as well as "a record about departures and the transition to a new equilibrium".[8] Charles Lyons-Burt of Slant Magazine said that it "picks up where Portishead's 2008 album, Third, left off, with detail-rich orchestral chamber pop backing a stunning exploration of aging and grief" that is "as captivating as it is devastating".[9] Record Collector's Johnnie Johnstone concluded that Lives Outgrown is "an album to fall deeply in love with. If you allow them to, these songs will envelop your soul."[7]
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Tell Me Who You Are Today" | 3:55 |
| 2. | "Floating on a Moment" | 5:26 |
| 3. | "Burden of Life" | 3:35 |
| 4. | "Lost Changes" | 5:41 |
| 5. | "Rewind" | 4:47 |
| 6. | "Reaching Out" | 4:15 |
| 7. | "Oceans" | 3:43 |
| 8. | "For Sale" | 4:25 |
| 9. | "Beyond the Sun" | 3:54 |
| 10. | "Whispering Love" | 6:10 |
| Total length: | 45:51 | |
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kreps, Daniel (7 February 2024). "Portishead Singer Beth Gibbons Announces First-Ever Solo Album Lives Outgrown". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Eede, Christian (8 February 2024). "Beth Gibbons Reveals Debut Solo LP, Lives Outgrown". The Quietus. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Singh, Surej (11 April 2024). "Portishead's Beth Gibbons shares new solo track 'Reaching Out'". NME. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Murray, Robin (8 February 2024). "Beth Gibbons Confirms Solo Album Lives Outgrown". Clash. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
- ^ a b "Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown". Mojo. June 2024. p. 80.
- ^ a b Johnstone, Johnnie (21 April 2024). "Lives Outgrown | Beth Gibbons". Record Collector. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
- ^ a b Gamble, Patrick (13 May 2024). "Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown". The Skinny. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
- ^ a b Lyons-Burt, Charles (13 May 2024). "Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown Review: A Grim Portrait of Mortality". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
- ^ a b "Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown". Uncut. June 2024. p. 23.
- ^ a b "Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown". The Wire. June 2024. p. 50.