Beth Gibbons (Portishead)

Singer and lyricist of Bristol folk trip hop legends Portishead, Beth Gibbons releases Lives Outgrown, her debut solo album, in May 2024, following previous projects with Rustin Man, in 2002, and a recording of Górecki's Symphony No. 3 with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2019.

Featuring 10 beautiful new songs recorded over a period of 10 years, it is, by some measure, Beth’s most personal work to date, the result of a period of sustained reflection and change — “lots of goodbyes,” in Beth’s words. Farewells to family, to friends, even to her former self.

These are songs from the mid-course of life, when looking ahead no longer yields what it used to, and looking back has a sudden, sharper focus.