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Beth Orton Releases 8½-Minute Single ‘The Ground Above’ With Evocative Video

The long, self-produced track signals a bolder stretch after 2022’s Weather Alive.

Overview

  • The song is out on Partisan as a standalone release for now, though Pitchfork reports an album may be on the horizon.
  • Orton wrote and produced the track herself and plays Fender Rhodes on the recording.
  • The piece runs about eight and a half minutes and shifts from hazy textures into a percussive, meditative passage.
  • The band features Shahzad Ismaily on bass, Vishal Nayak on drums, Sam Beste on piano, Christos Stylianides on trumpet, and Grey McMurray on guitar, with Dave Okumu adding backwards electric guitar.
  • A misty video directed by Imogen Knight and Joseph Lynn shows soft-focus, intimate imagery that edges into NSFW territory.