Beth Orton – Magpie

The distorted, sun-bleached video for this soaring new song transports us into a desert of heat strokes and hallucinationsReading this on a mobile? Click here to view videoTalking to Rolling Stone about Magpie, the first single to be lifted from her new album Sugaring Season (her first since 2006's Comfort of Strangers), Beth Orton described her fascination with birds and how the song was her attempt at "keeping my voice and a sense of freedom alive". Building slowly from delicately plucked acou...

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