Beth Gibbons

Thirty years after the release of Portishead’s first album, lead singer Beth Gibbons has announced the impending arrival of her own solo debut LP, Lives Outgrown. Ahead of the album’s May 17 release via Domino, Gibbons has shared the first single “Floating on a Moment,” which was accompanied by a video directed by multimedia artist Tony Oursler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldrx0eSqV-E Lives Outgrown is the culmination of a decade’s worth of songwriting for Gibbons, with the singer ruminating on…

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