Beth Gibbons

This week’s playlist includes Thursday, Gift, Bonny Light Horseman, Kate Davis, Idaho, Caribou, Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross / Boys Noize, and more.

The Portishead singer’s long-in-the-works solo debut is due May 17.

Plus: Essential Tremors, Missy Elliott, Robert Glasper, Mandy Indiana and more tour and festival news.

Spring has arrived, and here are 55 albums we can’t wait to hear this season, including Jessica Pratt, Knocked Loose, Shabaka, Beth Gibbons, Rapsody, St. Vincent, Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, and much more…

Featuring Beth Gibbons, Ducks Ltd, IDLES, J Mascis, Les Savy Fav, Four Tet, Mary Timony, Real Estate, and all the rest of February’s best stuff.

This week’s playlist includes songs by Beth Gibbons, Chelsea Wolfe, Amen Dunes, Brittany Howard, Kacey Musgraves, Caroline Polachek & Weyes Blood, Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, Les Savy Fav, and more

Beth co-produced ‘Lives Outgrown’ with James Ford, and the album is out May 17.

“I wanted to draw away from breakbeats and snares,” Beth says, “focusing on the woody fabric of timbres away from the sugary addiction of high frequencies that satisfy like sugar and salt.”

Utley says this Moog is his “main synth from our Portishead tours for over 10 years and has all the sounds I’ve made and used on those tours.”

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