lives surpassed, the long-awaited debut album from Portishead singer Beth Gibbons, has officially arrived. stream all 10 tracks below.
Arriving 16 years after Portishead's most recent project, lives surpassed is an existential and wide-ranging effort that plays with themes of nature, destruction, hope and fear. Gibbons described lives surpassed as his “most personal work to date” and characterized the project as filled with “many goodbyes.”
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Last month, listeners tried lives surpassed with the release of “Reaching Out”, while the first single, “Floating on a Moment”, was named our Song of the Week upon its arrival. The LP was produced by James Ford and the songs were written and recorded over the last decade.
Speaking about the album, she shared: “When you're young, you never know the end. You don't know how it's going to turn out. You think, 'We're going to get through this.' Everything is going to get better.' Some endings are difficult to digest.”
Gibbons previously released a pair of collaborative albums: Out of season with Rustin Man in 2002 and Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2019. Portishead's last studio album was in 2008. Third.
In 2023, Portishead released a remastered and expanded edition of their live album. Roseland New York live for its 25th anniversary. In May 2022, they reunited for their first live show in seven years. Now, Gibbons is gearing up for a series of European dates, kicking off in Paris on May 27.
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lives surpassed Songs list:
01. Tell me who you are today
02. Floating in a moment
03. Burden of life
04. Lost changes
05. Rewind
06. Reaching out
07. Oceans
08. For sale
09. Beyond the sun
10. Whispering love
Beth Gibbons 2024 Tour Dates:
05/27 – Paris, FR @ La Salle Pleyel
05/28 – Zurich, CH @ Theater 11
05/30 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Festival
05/31 – Lyon, FR @ La Bourse Du Travail
02/06 – Berlin, DE @ Verti Music Hall
03/06 – Copenhagen, DK @ Falkonersalen
05/06 – Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli Vredenburg
06/06 – Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royal
06/09 – London, United Kingdom @ The Barbican Center
06/10 – Manchester, United Kingdom @ Albert Hall
06/11 – Edinburgh, United Kingdom @ Usher Hall
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