Beth Gibbons
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Beth Gibbons: KCRW Live from Apogee Studio
[KCRW] Written by Marion Hodges Beth Gibbons’ sonic accomplishments alongside Geoff Barrow, Adrian Utley, and Andy Smith with their band Portishead established her as a defining voice among her 1990s cohort of alt-rock landscape-shifters. Classics like “Sour Times,” “Glory Box,” and “Only You” are equal parts sultry and scary; bracingly fresh electro-noir singles ready to […]
Watch Beth Gibbons play Portishead’s “Glory Box” at Coachella
[Brooklyn Vegan] By Bill Pearis Portishead’s Beth Gibbons played Coachella on Saturday as part of her Lives Outgrown tour. Since debuting her solo live band last year, her setlist have stayed pretty much the same, consisting of Lives Outgrown, a couple songs from her album with Rustin Man, as well as Portishead’s “Roads.” But she started switching it up just a […]
Live Review: Beth Gibbons at the Beacon Theatre
Jaime’s minute… Beth Gibbons @ Beacon Theatre (4/1) – When I was about 10 years old, my dad took me to get a haircut at a place down in Soho called John Masters. He was picky with who would cut my hair. During that haircut, Portishead’s album ‘Dummy’ came on, and I recall being intrigued by […]
‘Lives Outgrown’ by Beth Gibbons Review: A Distinctive Debut
Best known as a member of Portishead, the English singer releases her first solo studio album, ushering listeners into a dark, mythical musical world. [Wall Street Journal] By Mark Richardson In June 2013, the label Domino announced that English singer-songwriter Beth Gibbons had signed with the imprint and was working on her debut solo album. She was already […]
Portishead’s Beth Gibbons Returns Solo, Doleful Yet Determined
With “Lives Outgrown,” her first album of her own songs in 22 years, the pensive voice of the trip-hop group confronts maturity and mortality. [New York Times] By Jon Pareles “All trying but can’t escape/All going to nowhere,” Beth Gibbons sings in “Floating on a Moment” from her new album, “Lives Outgrown.” It’s an acknowledgment of mortality, of […]