Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown


This was just released and is musically outstanding. What is totally unexpected is the audiophile sound quality. This is the Redbook CD version. My vinyl system is down at the moment. Check it out, I would like to get some other opinions.

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Gave it a quick listen on Qobuz where it’s available at 24/96, and even on my fairly budget, daily-driver earbuds it sounds well recorded. As for the music, I find it interesting and really well done and kinda reminds me in style and sound of some of the Tori Amos stuff I remember from back in the 90s — a good thing. It is pretty haunting sounding from start to finish (the album title and several individual song titles are a definite tip-off here), and after a brief initial listen I would’ve welcomed a little more variability in tone and vibe as it got a little heavy after a while. That said it’s definitely interesting music and well worth a listen IMO — just don’t expect an audio happy pill here.

Listening to this on my Magnum Dynalab 108T tuner, a great unit. My great sounding NPR station is playing the song, "Beyond the Sun" and it sounds amazing sonically. It is also a very nice song. 

My ROON is down today (likely from an update) and once that is resolved I am going to give this album a few listens.

 

Sonically very good on dartzeels and grimmu2. Do not like the music ugh  bring back portishead edge