Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out Of Season

Out Of Season is a collaborative studio album by Beth Gibbons (Portishead) and Rustin Man (Paul Webb of Talk Talk), originally released in October 2002 via Go! Discs.

Out Of Season is described as an otherworldly mix of folk and jazz styles and has been inspired by artists including Billie Holiday, Nick Drake, Burt Bacharach and Dusty Springfield.

The album features contributions from Gibbons’ fellow Portishead bandmates Adrian Utley and Clive Deamer alongside Talk Talk’s Lee Harris.

The album proved to be a critical and commercial success, peaking inside the UK Top 30 and attracting positive reviews. “Somewhere between folk and torch singing, Gibbons finds a series of voices, as if each song is a different character,” says The Guardian. “Often incredibly sparse, sometimes lush… Out Of Season is gorgeously uneasy listening.”

This album is a 2022 repress on 180 gram black vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a printed inner sleeve and remastered audio, pressed in Europe via Island Records.