Portishead’s Beth Gibbons releases her much anticipated, long-in-the-works debut solo album, Lives Outgrown, on Friday, and here’s the final pre-release single. “Lost Changes” is sweeping, gorgeous and mournful — all things you want in a song from Beth — as she sings “We’re all lost together / We’re fooling each other… we try but we just can’t explain / We took on a feeling a moment a gleaming / and said what’s the game” against a wall of strings.
“I realized what life was like with no hope,” says Beth. “And that was a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do.”
The eerie, beautifully shot video was made by acclaimed photographer Juno Calypso and you can watch that below.
Still no word on North American dates, but Beth’s tour starts May 27 in Paris and includes festival appearances at Primavera Sound and Fuji Rock. All dates (headline shows are with Bill Ryder-Jones) are listed below.
If you want to hear Lives Outgrown before Friday, there are listening parties, including one in Brooklyn on Thursday (5/16) at Eavesdrop.
Beth Gibbons – 2024 Tour Dates
May 27 – La Salle Pleyel, Paris - SOLD OUT
May 28 – Theater 11, Zürich
May 30 – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona
May 31 – La Bourse Du Travail, Lyon – SOLD OUT
June 2 – Uber Eats Music Hall, Berlin
June 3 – Falkonersalen, Copenhagen
June 5 – TivoliVredenburg (Main Hall), Utrecht - SOLD OUT
June 6 – Cirque Royal, Brussels - SOLD OUT
June 9 – The Barbican Centre, London - SOLD OUT
June 10 – Albert Hall, Manchester
June 11 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
July 27 – Fuji Rock Festival, Niigata