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Beth Orton review – battered optimism from an artist making the best music of her career
Source: The Guardian · Published
<p><strong>Concorde 2, Brighton</strong><br>Drawing almost entirely from her last two albums, and backed by a band rooted in jazz and experimentation, Orton performed her emotionally fraught songs to…
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