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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release from Portishead's Beth Gibbons was recorded over 10 years and was produced with James Ford with additional production by Talk Talk's Lee Harris.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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May 16, 2024A dispatch from the darker moments of middle age, Lives Outgrown is occasionally challenging, frequently beautiful and invariably gripping.
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May 13, 2024Lives Outgrown is a quite different prospect to Gibbons' previous work - more intimate, more personal, coloured by the grief and goodbyes se 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. [Jun 2024, p.23]
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May 13, 2024Lives Outgrown presents an artist whose capabilities have been sharply honed, with the skill to convey all of life’s complicated, thorny emotions.
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May 16, 2024Throughout, Gibbons and her collaborators maintain a needling sense of unease that, when punctured, allows for fabulous melodic blowouts.
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May 17, 2024Lives Outgrown is a collection that will make you feel small, such is its world view and acknowledgement of the natural world’s—and time’s—brutal indifference to human suffering. But Gibbons is a survivor and advocate, and this album is alive—musically, lyrically.
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May 16, 2024Leftfield choices underscore the courageous and subtly unusual nature of Gibbons’ album, which hides its eccentricity behind her deathless voice and sympathetic lyrical insight.
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May 16, 2024The record is described as Gibbons’ “most personal work to date”, dealing with experiences of grief, change, and hopelessness – and it makes for a very conceptually decisive project, with a distinctive vocabulary of motion and stasis, weight and lightness.