Portishead's Beth Gibbons Announces Debut Solo album & Shares New Song 'Floating on a Moment'
He lives out of date It will be released on May 17 via Domino. tour dates have also been announced
February 07, 2024
Photo by Netti Habel
Portishead's Beth Gibbons has announced her debut solo album, He lives out of date, and shared his first single, “Floating on a Moment,” via a music video. He has also announced some tour dates. He lives out of date will be released on May 17 via Domino. Check out the single below, followed by the tracklist and album art, as well as tour dates.
Portishead's last album was in 2008 Third. In 2002 Gibbons teamed up with Rustin Man (aka Paul Webb of Talk Talk) for the collaborative album Out of season. In 2014 Gibbons collaborated with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki, to perform Henryk Górecki's acclaimed 1977 symphony, Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sad Songs). An album and a film documenting the performance, simply titled Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)released in 2019. In 2022, Gibbons collaborated with Kendrick Lamar on the song “Mother I Sober”, from Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers album.
Despite her long career, He lives out of date is her first true solo album. Gibbons produced the album with James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, The Last Dinner Party), with additional production by Lee Harris (Talk Talk).
The album was inspired by a decade of change as he entered middle age and the vibrancy and hope of youth began to fade. As loved ones began to die much more regularly than when she was younger.
“I realized what life was like without hope,” Gibbons says in a press release. “And that was a sadness I had never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you're dealing with your body, you can't force it to do something it doesn't want to do.”
The album's themes include motherhood, stress, menopause and mortality.
“People started dying,” says Gibbons. “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 move past this. It will get better.' Some endings are hard to digest.”
Gibbons adds, more hopeful: “I've come out the other end now, I just think you have to be brave.”
David Bowie's collaborator Tony Oursler directed the “Floating on a Moment” video and said of it: “When I first heard 'Floating on a Moment' it literally transported me from place to place, filling me with kaleidoscopic emotions and visions. If possible, I wanted to capture that psychic fluid in this video. Beth's work is so powerful that it can lead us through the woods and fires of life, revealing glimpses of possible futures. With one voice and one music like that I knew we had to make images that are open, in a way speculative.”
Read our rave review for Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs).
He lives out of date Track List:
1. Tell me who you are today
2. Floating On A Moment
3. Weight of Life
4. Lost Changes
5. Back
6. Reaching out
7. Oceans
8. For Sale
9. Beyond The Sun
10. Whispering Love
Beth Gibbons UK/EU tour Dates:
27/5: La Salle Pleyel – Paris
28/5: Theater 11 – Zurich
30/5: Primavera Sound festival – Barcelona
31/5: La Bourse Du Travail – Lyon
6/02: Uber Eats Music Hall – Berlin
6/03: Falconersalen – Copenhagen
6/05: Tivoli Vredenburg (Main Hall) – Utrecht
6/06: Cirque Royal – Brussels
6/09: The Barbican Center – London
6/10: Albert Hall – Manchester
6/11: Usher Hall – Edinburgh
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