Beth Orton "The Ground Above" 2025-09-05 and won the Best Album

and won the Best Album at the 1996 Brit Awards

One of the finest shows of the tour was undoubtedly the group's standout performance at the Santa Barbara Bowl in California on the 26th of May

brutal journey it is too

folk legend Danny Thompson on double bass and original Jam member Steve Brookes on guitar

propulsive beats and cinematic soundscapes all lurk beneath Shirley Manson’s expressive voice

Beth Orton "The Ground Above" 2025-09-05 and won the Best AlbumIf 2022s album, Weather Alive, lived underwater, suspended, spectral, and dreamlike, The Ground Above marks a resurfacing. It is Beths most direct and unapologetic music to date; profoundly urgent, embodied, and powered by a newfound strength. Where the previous record unfolded in a post ictal, time out of time dreamscape, The Ground Above finds Orton firmly back on land, taking a giant intake of air. It documents survival, integration, renewal, and