Beth Orton has shared her new song ‘Friday Night’.
The songwriter’s new album ‘Weather Alive’ is out on September 23rd, and it’s looking like something rather special indeed. A remarkable vocalist, this is Beth Orton’s first on Partisan Records, and the initial previews match her illustrious catalogue.
New song ‘Friday Night’ is the latest to emerge, with the percussive shuffle aligned to a pensive, minimalist framework. The space seems to allow Beth Orton to reach gorgeous new heights, with the lyric musing on love, and a sense of purpose – and where those can be found.
‘Weather Alive’ on September 23rd
As she puts it…
“Friday Night is someone reflecting on, and trying to decide, what to give up or what to surrender to. Passion or ambivalence? Whether to “bleed or rust in the rain.”
“Most of us are struggling to make sense of where to put the love we have for those that are lost to us, let alone the ones that remain. Sometimes there is no right answer except to find the wisdom in the spaces between the endings and beginnings, in the remembrance of things past or in search of lost time, there are always re-percussions to the choices we make. We are listening to the internal dialogue of someone living it out, what is futile and what is worth fighting for, and trying to do as little damage along the way. Friday night being the night that makes the week more bearable, there is hope.
“Coming to realise what is real and what is out of reach can be unbelievably painful, waking up to the love that remains can be the greatest gift and the most wonderful surprise. Even in absence there is presence, there is no escape but to look for where the love is still alive within us.”
A song blessed with a painterly touch, ‘Friday Night’ comes with news of an in-store run this September, kicking off at London’s Rough Trade East on September 23rd and then hitting Sheffield, Edinburgh, Nottingham, and Oxford.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Eliot Lee Hazel
