Beth Orton "The Ground Above" COLOR:Standard Rob Ellis and Mick Harvey

Rob Ellis and Mick Harvey

turned into a nightmare

later that year on Lame-O Records

" while Mike Birbiglia once called Eugene the "Andy Warhol of comedy

Album housed in a displayable shark fin pop-up jacket with O-card slipcase

Beth Orton "The Ground Above" COLOR:Standard Rob Ellis and Mick HarveyIf 2022s album, Weather Alive, lived underwater, suspended, spectral, and dreamlike, The Ground Above marks a resurfacing. It is Beths most direct and unapologetic music to date; profoundly urgent, embodied, and powered by a newfound strength. Where the previous record unfolded in a post ictal, time out of time dreamscape, The Ground Above finds Orton firmly back on land, taking a giant intake of air. It documents survival, integration, renewal, and