Beth Orton previews new album with third single "Friday Night"

After releasing "Forever Young" last month and the album title-track in May, Orton has shared a third outing titled "Friday Night", which arrives with a self-directed video.

""Friday Night" is someone reflecting on, and trying to decide, what to give up or what to surrender to," Orton explains. "Passion or ambivalence? Whether to "bleed or rust in the rain"."

Orton continues, "Most of us are struggling to make sense of where to put the love we have for those that are lost to us, let alone the ones that remain. Sometimes there is no right answer except to find the wisdom in the spaces between the endings and beginnings, in the remembrance of things past or in search of lost time, there are always re-percussions to the choices we make. We are listening to the internal dialogue of someone living it out, what is futile and what is worth fighting for, and trying to do as little damage along the way. Friday night being the night that makes the week more bearable, there is hope."

"Coming to realise what is real and what is out of reach can be unbelievably painful, waking up to the love that remains can be the greatest gift and the most wonderful surprise," Orton adds. "Even in absence there is presence, there is no escape but to look for where the love is still alive within us."

Orton's seventh studio album Weather Alive will be her first on Partisan Records. It'll follow 2016's Kidsticks, and features contributions from The Smile and Sons of Kemet's Tom Skinner, Alabaster dePlume, Shahzad Ismaily and The Invisible’s bassist Tom Herbert.