Beth Orton today announces her new album The Ground Above, out June 26th on Partisan Records. She also shares new single “Waiting,” a slow-building, life-affirming track with subtle influences of Laura Nyro, Carol King and Orton’s early collaborator Terry Callier. Orton says the song “is a celebration of moving out of the holding pattern fear keeps us in.” Across The Ground Above, she continues to expand her songwriting into new terrain, with “Waiting” she does so with humour as much as heartbreak.
A testament to her artistry, the album The Ground Above is Orton’s most direct and unapologetic music to date; urgent, raw, embodied and emotionally fearless, moving between subconscious expression and expansive, timeless songcraft. Her voice, as distinctive as ever, delivers melodies reminiscent of classic songbook form. Throughout the album, Orton documents survival and renewal, motherhood and identity, political unease, and the ongoing choice to stay - in love, in art, and in the world.