Folktronica acoustic guitar heroine Beth Orton has released a new track called “Friday Night” – the final teaser from her long-awaited new album, Weather Alive.
Due out on September 23, the LP is the British singer-songwriter’s first on the Partisan Records label and follows up 2016’s Kidsticks.
Featuring drummer Tom Skinner (from Radiohead spinoff band The Smile,) multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily (Lou Reed, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot) and bassist Tom Herbert of Mercury Prize nominees The Invisible and Polar Bear, Weather Alive appears after the passing of Orton‘s close musical companions Andrew Weatherall and Hal Willner.
The work also arrives following Orton’s incorrectly diagnosed health issues.
“I wanted to be one of those women who are all sorted and put together some day, but at 40, I kept getting messier and more ill and things just kept going wrong,” explains the artist whose recording career began nearly 30 years ago with the debut album Superpinkymandy.
“[Weather Alive] explores all of that. I’m talking about my experiences possibly in a more personal way then I ever have but the important part will be how this music makes other people feel.
“It’s not a finished masterpiece, it is a collaboration with time, of someone struggling to make sense. And in that struggle, something beautiful got made.”
In support of her new album, Orton will be embarking on a headlining tour of the U.K. and North America later this year.
Dates are as follows:
- 7 OCT 2022 / UK / Birmingham / Academy 2
- 8 OCT 2022 / UK / Brighton / St. Bartholomew’s Church
- 9 OCT 2022 / UK / London / KOKO
- 10 OCT 2022 / UK / Norwich / Arts Centre
- 12 OCT 2022 / UK / Bristol / St. George’s
- 13 OCT 2022 / UK / Glasgow / Classic Grand
- 15 OCT 2022 / UK / Manchester / RCMN Concert Hall
- 16 OCT 2022 / UK / Leeds / Brudenell Social Club
- 1 NOV 2022 / Washington, DC / Sixth & I
- 2 NOV 2022 / Philadelphia, PA / World Café Live
- 3 NOV 2022 / Montclair, NJ / First Congregational Church
- 5 NOV 2022 / New York, NY / Bowery Ballroom
- 6 NOV 2022 / Somerville, MA / Crystal Ballroom
- 7 NOV 2022 / Montreal, QUE / Le Studio TD
- 8 NOV 2022 / Toronto, ONT / The Great Hall
- 10 NOV 2022 / Chicago, IL / The Mayfield
- 11 NOV 2022 / Milwaukee, WI / Pabst Theater
- 12 NOV 2022 / Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN / The Cedar
- 14 NOV 2022 / Denver, CO / Oriental Theater
- 16 NOV 2022 / Phoenix, AZ / Musical Instrument Museum
- 17 NOV 2022 / Los Angeles, CA / Teragram Ballroom
- 18 NOV 2022 / San Francisco, CA / Bimbo's
- 20 NOV 2022 / Portland, OR / Mississippi Studios
- 21 NOV 2022 / Seattle, WA / Neptune
- 22 NOV 2022 / Vancouver, BC / Hollywood Theater
Pre-order Weather Alive here.
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