BETH ORTON - The Ground Above LP crust that full range of emotion

that full range of emotion is transmitted at once

transcend conventional harmonic boundaries of song arrangement

Melchior supports himself in recent years as a portrait artist

Barbara Barthelmes

reverb-heavy territory

BETH ORTON - The Ground Above LP crust that full range of emotionFor more than 30 years, Beth Orton has been our antenna to the cosmos, the poet laureate of forces too vast to take in all at once. A testament to her artistry, The Ground Above is Ortons most direct and unapologetic music to date; urgent, raw, embodied and emotionally fearless, moving between subconscious expression and expansive, timeless song craft. Her voice, from whispered incantation to primal wail, equally delivers melodies reminiscent of