Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown LP

Billed as her debut solo album, this feels like a more than worthy follow up to 2002's amazing Out of Season (credited as a collaboration with Rustin Man). Lives Outgrown features production by another Talk Talk alumni, Lee Harris, and contains sonic ghosts of Gibbons' past; some haunting, subtle echoes of the anxious moods explored on Portishead's Third - but there's a general tilt away from the jazz and soul that has previously informed her work in favour of some kind of ancient British folk through a dreamlike prism. 30 years of music and not one single miss.