Lives Outgrown | ||||
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Released | 17 May 2024 | |||
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Genre | Chamber pop | |||
Length | 45:51 | |||
Label | Domino | |||
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Beth Gibbons chronology | ||||
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Singles from Lives Outgrown | ||||
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Lives Outgrown is the debut solo studio album by English musician Beth Gibbons, released on 17 May 2024 through Domino Recording Company. [1] The album was produced by Gibbons, James Ford and Lee Harris. [2] It was preceded by the singles "Floating on a Moment", "Reaching Out" and "Lost Changes". [3] [4] The album received positive reviews from critics.
Gibbons wrote the album over a decade, with topics including "motherhood, anxiety, menopause, and mortality". [1] Gibbons said that the album was directly influenced by the deaths of family and friends over the preceding several years and she "realised what life was like with no hope". [5]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 88/100 [6] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Guardian | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mojo | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
NME | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Pitchfork | 8.0/10 [11] |
Record Collector | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Skinny | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Slant Magazine | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Uncut | 9/10 [15] |
Lives Outgrown received a score of 88 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on 22 critics' reviews, which the website categorised as "universal acclaim". [6] Uncut felt that "Lives Outgrown is a quite different prospect to Gibbons' previous work – more intimate, more personal, coloured by the grief and goodbyes she has weathered in recent years. But it is still possible to find a thread that runs from here to Out of Season, and back to Portishead". [15] The Wire called it "timeless and considered" and "a complete, but still complicated, portrait of the intersection of grief and life", [16] and Mojo wrote that while it can "all sound bleak[, ...] Lives Outgrown is also very beautiful". [9]
The Skinny's Patrick Gamble described the album as "a haunting collection of torch songs" as well as "a record about departures and the transition to a new equilibrium". [13] Charles Lyons-Burt of Slant Magazine said that it "picks up where Portishead's 2008 album, Third, left off, with detail-rich orchestral chamber pop backing a stunning exploration of aging and grief" that is "as captivating as it is devastating". [14] Record Collector's Johnnie Johnstone concluded that Lives Outgrown is "an album to fall deeply in love with. If you allow them to, these songs will envelop your soul." [12]
Reviewing the album for AllMusic. Heather Phares described the album as being, "steeped in the emotional and physical realities of living long enough to bring life into the world and to see it leave" and concluded that "Lives Outgrown reveals Gibbons' music is only getting richer as the years pass." [7] Alexis Petridis from The Guardian also highlighted the level of growth displayed on the album, writing: "A dispatch from the darker moments of middle age, Lives Outgrown is occasionally challenging, frequently beautiful and invariably gripping." [8] Ben Cardew at Pitchfork noted the eclecticism of Gibbon's music, saying that "Leftfield choices underscore the courageous and subtly unusual nature of Gibbons' album, which hides its eccentricity behind her deathless voice and sympathetic lyrical insight." [11]
All tracks are written by Beth Gibbons; "Tell Me Who You Are Today", "Burden of Life", "Rewind", and "Beyond the Sun" written with Lee Harris.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Tell Me Who You Are Today" | 3:55 |
2. | "Floating on a Moment" | 5:26 |
3. | "Burden of Life" | 3:35 |
4. | "Lost Changes" | 5:41 |
5. | "Rewind" | 4:47 |
6. | "Reaching Out" | 4:15 |
7. | "Oceans" | 3:43 |
8. | "For Sale" | 4:25 |
9. | "Beyond the Sun" | 3:54 |
10. | "Whispering Love" | 6:10 |
Total length: | 45:51 |
Musicians
Technical
Visuals
Chart (2024) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums ( ARIA) [17] | 50 |
Austrian Albums ( Ö3 Austria) [18] | 5 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Flanders) [19] | 11 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Wallonia) [20] | 4 |
Danish Albums ( Hitlisten) [21] | 15 |
Dutch Albums ( Album Top 100) [22] | 14 |
French Albums ( SNEP) [23] | 13 |
German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [24] | 5 |
Irish Albums ( IRMA) [25] | 96 |
Italian Albums ( FIMI) [26] | 69 |
Japanese Hot Albums ( Billboard Japan) [27] | 67 |
New Zealand Albums ( RMNZ) [28] | 37 |
Polish Albums ( ZPAV) [29] | 69 |
Portuguese Albums ( AFP) [30] | 9 |
Scottish Albums ( OCC) [31] | 4 |
Spanish Albums ( PROMUSICAE) [32] | 36 |
Swedish Physical Albums ( Sverigetopplistan) [33] | 9 |
Swiss Albums ( Schweizer Hitparade) [34] | 4 |
UK Albums ( OCC) [35] | 7 |
UK Independent Albums ( OCC) [36] | 1 |
Lives Outgrown | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 17 May 2024 | |||
Recorded |
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Genre | Chamber pop | |||
Length | 45:51 | |||
Label | Domino | |||
Producer |
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Beth Gibbons chronology | ||||
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Singles from Lives Outgrown | ||||
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Lives Outgrown is the debut solo studio album by English musician Beth Gibbons, released on 17 May 2024 through Domino Recording Company. [1] The album was produced by Gibbons, James Ford and Lee Harris. [2] It was preceded by the singles "Floating on a Moment", "Reaching Out" and "Lost Changes". [3] [4] The album received positive reviews from critics.
Gibbons wrote the album over a decade, with topics including "motherhood, anxiety, menopause, and mortality". [1] Gibbons said that the album was directly influenced by the deaths of family and friends over the preceding several years and she "realised what life was like with no hope". [5]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 88/100 [6] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Guardian | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mojo | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
NME | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Pitchfork | 8.0/10 [11] |
Record Collector | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Skinny | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Slant Magazine | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Uncut | 9/10 [15] |
Lives Outgrown received a score of 88 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on 22 critics' reviews, which the website categorised as "universal acclaim". [6] Uncut felt that "Lives Outgrown is a quite different prospect to Gibbons' previous work – more intimate, more personal, coloured by the grief and goodbyes she has weathered in recent years. But it is still possible to find a thread that runs from here to Out of Season, and back to Portishead". [15] The Wire called it "timeless and considered" and "a complete, but still complicated, portrait of the intersection of grief and life", [16] and Mojo wrote that while it can "all sound bleak[, ...] Lives Outgrown is also very beautiful". [9]
The Skinny's Patrick Gamble described the album as "a haunting collection of torch songs" as well as "a record about departures and the transition to a new equilibrium". [13] Charles Lyons-Burt of Slant Magazine said that it "picks up where Portishead's 2008 album, Third, left off, with detail-rich orchestral chamber pop backing a stunning exploration of aging and grief" that is "as captivating as it is devastating". [14] Record Collector's Johnnie Johnstone concluded that Lives Outgrown is "an album to fall deeply in love with. If you allow them to, these songs will envelop your soul." [12]
Reviewing the album for AllMusic. Heather Phares described the album as being, "steeped in the emotional and physical realities of living long enough to bring life into the world and to see it leave" and concluded that "Lives Outgrown reveals Gibbons' music is only getting richer as the years pass." [7] Alexis Petridis from The Guardian also highlighted the level of growth displayed on the album, writing: "A dispatch from the darker moments of middle age, Lives Outgrown is occasionally challenging, frequently beautiful and invariably gripping." [8] Ben Cardew at Pitchfork noted the eclecticism of Gibbon's music, saying that "Leftfield choices underscore the courageous and subtly unusual nature of Gibbons' album, which hides its eccentricity behind her deathless voice and sympathetic lyrical insight." [11]
All tracks are written by Beth Gibbons; "Tell Me Who You Are Today", "Burden of Life", "Rewind", and "Beyond the Sun" written with Lee Harris.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Tell Me Who You Are Today" | 3:55 |
2. | "Floating on a Moment" | 5:26 |
3. | "Burden of Life" | 3:35 |
4. | "Lost Changes" | 5:41 |
5. | "Rewind" | 4:47 |
6. | "Reaching Out" | 4:15 |
7. | "Oceans" | 3:43 |
8. | "For Sale" | 4:25 |
9. | "Beyond the Sun" | 3:54 |
10. | "Whispering Love" | 6:10 |
Total length: | 45:51 |
Musicians
Technical
Visuals
Chart (2024) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums ( ARIA) [17] | 50 |
Austrian Albums ( Ö3 Austria) [18] | 5 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Flanders) [19] | 11 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Wallonia) [20] | 4 |
Danish Albums ( Hitlisten) [21] | 15 |
Dutch Albums ( Album Top 100) [22] | 14 |
French Albums ( SNEP) [23] | 13 |
German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [24] | 5 |
Irish Albums ( IRMA) [25] | 96 |
Italian Albums ( FIMI) [26] | 69 |
Japanese Hot Albums ( Billboard Japan) [27] | 67 |
New Zealand Albums ( RMNZ) [28] | 37 |
Polish Albums ( ZPAV) [29] | 69 |
Portuguese Albums ( AFP) [30] | 9 |
Scottish Albums ( OCC) [31] | 4 |
Spanish Albums ( PROMUSICAE) [32] | 36 |
Swedish Physical Albums ( Sverigetopplistan) [33] | 9 |
Swiss Albums ( Schweizer Hitparade) [34] | 4 |
UK Albums ( OCC) [35] | 7 |
UK Independent Albums ( OCC) [36] | 1 |