- 2026-04-01
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MUSIC
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Beth Orton Returns With New Song “The Ground Above”
British singer-songwriter Beth Orton returned with a new song “The Ground Above” on March 31, 2026.
The song is her first new music in four years, following the 2022 album “Weather Alive”.
It was witten and produced by Beth Orton. The track features Shahzad Ismaily on bass, Sam Beste on piano, Christos Stylianides on trumpet, Grey McMurray on guitar, Dave Okumu on guitar, and Vishal Nayak on drums.
The accompanying music visualiser was directed by Imogen Knight and Joseph Lynn.
Beth Orton said of the song, “Linear time has no place in music. I find myself trying to iron out my brain like a map, to show what started where, I could spend forever writing notes in the margins, notes to self, finding archaeological artifacts, layers of soil and magic, the strata of love, sorrow and joy in relation to time, all that goes into the architecture of any particular song.”- She continued, “What has kept me alive is a feral invincibility, barrelling through life, propelled magnetically as in a flying dream that won't allow for time to get hold of my ankles and catch up with me. Grief had me say yes to life, to embrace and taste and devour. I know life to be as pointless and as meaningful as I can make it. I wanted to write some of this into a dream, a confluence of meaning and feeling.”
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Background photo by Kasia Wozniak - source : Apple Music
