UK singer Beth Orton has rescheduled her upcoming tour of Australia due to health reasons. The folk-rock artist was due to tour the country in November, with three shows having been locked in in ...

Beth Orton’s “Weather Alive” is an album bustling with firsts. Orton has been a working musician for nearly 30 years. In that time she has distinguished herself as a ruminative folk artist whose ...

Beth Orton Brings Live Weather to LA: Brit “Folktronica” artist Beth Orton has been something of an underground icon since her majestic 1996 breakthrough album Trailer Park. She released a new one ...

But, it turned out, the hyperactive energy of that album was a function of a traumatic time: Orton was suffering serious cognitive illness and seizures, and Kidsticks was the sound of her trying to ...

English singer and songwriter Beth Orton has always been challenging to pin down stylistically. Because she first garnered attention for collabs with The Chemical Brothers and William Orbit, it ...

Last month, Beth Orton announced her first new album in six years, Weather Alive, with its title track, which made it onto our best songs of the week list. Today, she’s back with another new song from ...

Beth Orton (born Elizabeth Caroline Orton, 14 December 1970) is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter, known for her 'folktronica' sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica. She was ...

With a vintage upright and painstakingly assembled songs, the English folk-pop-electronic songwriter’s eighth studio album, “Weather Alive,” is her best. By Jon Pareles Maybe the soot helped. The ...