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- Record Label: Partisan
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Jun 26, 2026Intimate, thoughtful and gorgeously-rendered, it’s a record that confronts love, grief and mortality with rare grace, while continuing a three-decade tradition of artistic and spiritual evolution.
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Jun 26, 2026This appreciation for our increasingly complex emotional survival distinguishes The Ground Above, rendering affecting what might have been arduous. No longer are her tremulous vocals instantly ravishing, but they’re still convincingly, endearingly sincere, born of consequential experience. [Jul 2026, p.32]
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Jun 26, 2026Ultimately, The Ground Above elegantly shores up Beth Orton’s creative resurgence. Altogether, it represents a more mature form of comedown – one that comes with midlife epiphanies and a strong sense of resilience. [Aug 2026, p.86]
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Jun 26, 2026Orton’s voice is as distinct and beguiling as ever, with some newly creaky, lived-in edges that nicely complement the songs’ jazzy undertones. At times, she’s almost indecipherable—frustrating because her lyrics are worth mulling but forgivable since her voice is so expressive all on its own.