Song is final single to arrive ahead of Portishead frontwoman’s solo debut, Lives Outgrown
WITH A DOUR acoustic guitar line that recalls David Bowie, Pink Floyd, and, of course, Portishead, Beth Gibbons assumes full doomsayer mode to remind you, “Forever ends, you will grow old,” on “Lost Changes.” The single is the last to arrive ahead of the Portishead frontwoman’s solo debut, Lives Outgrown, which came out Friday.
Fortuitously for everyone who listens, Gibbons already warned us the affair would be bleak, since she made the album as she came to terms with the deaths of close friends and family. “I realized what life was like with no hope,” she said of her frame of mind around making the record. “That was a sadness I’d never felt.” But Gibbons has always dealt in darker hues even before Lives Outgrown. Most everyone who listens is also probably already familiar with Portishead’s whole milieu of sour times and Gibbons’ recordings of composer Henryk Górecki’s heartbreaking Symphony No. 3.
Watch the video for Changes below
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