Beth GibbonsBest Beth Gibbons Albums Ranked
8.3
Avg Score
16
Opinions
3
Albums
11
Reviewers
Summary from 16 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Beth Gibbons’s catalog across 3 albums from 16 opinions, with an overall average of 8.3/10. The top-rated Beth Gibbons album is Lives Outgrown (2024) with a 8.5/10 average from 10 ratings, followed by Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) and Out of Season. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2001 to 2024. Floating on a Moment ranks as the highest-rated Beth Gibbons song on Rate.fm with a 8.8/10 average.
Lives Outgrown
“The Portishead vocalist/lyricist took a decade to concoct her first-ever solo studio album and came out with bleak, orchestral, funereal songs about motherhood, mortality, and everything caught in-between.”
Lives Outgrown
“A handful of adjectives seem to follow Beth Gibbons around. “Tortured”, “bleak” – they crop up again and again in descriptions of the singer, the combined effect being the construction of a sort of proxy personality to drape over that remarkable voice. The problem is, those imagined traits have been derived solely from the same voice they are seeking to embellish: after all, aside from a couple of”
Lives Outgrown
“Beth Gibbons is like a ghost. Probing the shadowy spaces of bereavement, her songs are articulated through weary quivers, moans and wails. They convey fractured feelings and inhabit dislocation itself, approaching the remaining space as terrain to be mapped, felt through, revisited, grown with. Her voice first materialized thirty years ago within the claustrophobic urban loneliness of Portishead'”