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9.0
131624
9.0 |
Clash
Beautifully accomplished, ‘Weather Alive’ stands as an imposing career-high by a fine, fine songwriter
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8.7
131600
8.7 |
Pitchfork
The eighth album from the English songwriter is the best work of her career. Soothing, immersive, and self-produced, it conjures a dreamlike atmosphere with songs that spiral out into the ether
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8.4
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8.4 |
Beats Per Minute
Orton has proved herself before as one of the finest sirens of heartbreak, adept at jumping genres and styles. But here, almost 30 years into her career, she has proven herself as even more than that. She’s a painter of sound, of mood
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8.0
131605
8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
For a cohesive batch of wistful mood pieces, look no further
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8.0
131645
8.0 |
Record Collector
Magnificently deep and moody. Print edition only
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8.0
131694
8.0 |
No Ripcord
One could say that her impeccable use of space is what reveals a special intensity to her work, a musical style artists don't often explore as they near the end of their third decade release music
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8.0
131587
8.0 |
The FT
The folk singer’s first new record in six years conveys a spacious sense of time passing
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8.0
131588
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Orton’s voice, which has always existed on the verge of cracking, is more wavering than ever
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8.0
131589
8.0 |
PopMatters
Having only put out five albums in the past two decades, Beth Orton’s Weather Alive embraces her electro-folk past while embracing a weathered, gorgeous future
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8.0
131590
8.0 |
Mojo
This is as moving and real as Orton has ever been. Print edition only
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8.0
131591
8.0 |
Uncut
The result is both viscerally corporeal music, full of gristle and breath, and richly ambient. Print edition only
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7.0
131621
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
The eight tracks that make up Weather Alive all share a sense of wonder – at the world around us, the majesty and power of weather, and the positive aspects of fatalism – and they feel more organic than anything Orton has previously produced
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7.0
131586
7.0 |
musicOMH
Singer-songwriter’s first album in six years is an engrossing listen and offers a soundtrack to the peaceful transition from summer to autumn
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