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10.0
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10.0 |
The Irish Times
Portishead singer has channelled grief and trauma into a meditation on metamorphoses that is both a clear and dewy-eyed
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10.0
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10.0 |
The Guardian
In the Portishead singer’s singular, astonishing soundworld, these songs sit in autumnal gloom but are occasionally dappled with warmth and light
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10.0
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The Arts Desk
This is a brave album from a woman who doesn’t shrink from darkness
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10.0
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10.0 |
Paste Magazine
The Portishead vocalist/lyricist took a decade to concoct her first-ever solo studio album and came out with bleak, orchestral, funereal songs about motherhood, mortality, and everything caught in-between
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9.0
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Far Out
It is hardly surprising that the record is stunning, but it only further emphasises how everything Gibbons touches turns to pure gold
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9.0
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9.0 |
Spill Magazine
A victorious testament to her voice being amongst the most important in modern music history – both lyrically and sonically
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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
As she explores aging with haunting beauty and resolute honesty, Lives Outgrown reveals Gibbons' music is only getting richer as the years pass
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9.0
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9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Gibbons and the music alike transform across its running time from a taut, stormy start to warm bucolic finish, with the final sounds those of a rural farmyard, of life going on around (or despite it) the despair
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9.0
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Slant Magazine
The singer’s first official solo album is as captivating as it is devastating
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9.0
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Uncut
A quite different prospect to Gibbons' previous work - more intimate, more personal, coloured by the grief and goodbyes se has weathered in recent years. But it is still possible to find a thread that runs from here to Out Of Season, and back to Portishead. Print edition only
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8.5
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8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Perhaps no one in music today is better equipped to touch our souls with the pure dread of aging than Beth Gibbons. On her first solo record, she delivers
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8.3
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8.3 |
Beats Per Minute
What expands Lives Outgrown into more than just a hauntologic study of British folk is its insistence to emote deep sorrow through the lost memories of those elements
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8.0
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PopMatters
Lives Outgrown seems like an outgrowth of where Beth Gibbons’ mind and talents have taken her in the past decade, which is to ruminate on how life is a vapor
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8.0
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Exclaim
The road forward won't be found on any clear path, but Lives Outgrown reminds us that the ghosts haunting us will continue to reside in the spaces of this reckoning, ready to emerge and help us in surprising ways
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8.0
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8.0 |
The FT
The Portishead singer has a powerful sense of feeling in her voice on her solo debut
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
Beth Gibbons gives us the understanding of our mortality that we all need on her most revealing work
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8.0
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8.0 |
Pitchfork
Thirty years after stepping into the spotlight, the Portishead singer reintroduces herself with her debut solo album. History weighs heavy on her songs, but she takes pains to avoid her musical past
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Observer
‘We all know what’s coming,’ sings Gibbons on an elegiac, folk-imbued record that’s been 10 years in the making
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8.0
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8.0 |
Under The Radar
Lives Outgrown is a collection that will make you feel small, such is its world view and acknowledgement of the natural world’s — and time’s — brutal indifference to human suffering
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8.0
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8.0 |
God Is In The TV
More than thirty years on from her game changing musical debut, Beth Gibbons’ first solo effort plates up a hearty blend of poetry and psychedelia, stirred in amongst a helping of folk, and finished off beautifully with her stunning voice. It’s hard to resist coming back for seconds
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8.0
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Mojo
If that all sounds bleak, it is. Yet Lives Outgrown is also very beautiful. Print edition only
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8.0
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Record Collector
One suspects Gibbons agonised over every word and note on Lives Outgrown, but the result is an album to fall deeply in love with. If you allow them to, these songs will envelope your soul
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8.0
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8.0 |
musicOMH
As one may expect from someone who’s taken nearly 30 years to make their solo album, the level of craft and attention to detail on the Portishead star’s debut is exceptional
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
On her long-awaited debut solo album, Portishead singer Beth Gibbons has channelled her midlife experiences into a haunting collection of torch songs
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
Gibbons' first solo studio record is a mesmerising collection from a singular talent and voice
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
These rich and atmospheric arrangements fail to completely offset the creeping, crawling melodies, built from inching steps of tones and semitone
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6.9
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6.9 |
Northern Transmissions
An interesting album with some nice themes but lacks strong execution
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