The Ground Above Pinchas Zukerman surreal vision of North American

surreal vision of North American life—“the American nightmare” instead of the dream—filtered through Francoeur’s spoken‑sung poetry and the band’s dense

there “isn’t a weak number” across the compilation

mainland Greece

"this album has made me known" — and the Sessions release stands as both a loving tribute to the record that launched his career and a demonstration of how profoundly he has grown as a musician in the intervening thirty years

and drum and bass into a propulsive electropop framework to convey the feeling of being consumed by love

The Ground Above Pinchas Zukerman surreal vision of North AmericanThe Ground Above is Beth Ortons 2026 album on Partisan Records, an eightsong, 47minute cycle she has described as her most direct, urgent, and emotionally fearless work to date. Selfproduced like her 2022 record Weather Alive, it was crafted over roughly a year from liveintheroom recordings, keeping a loose, collective feel while Orton gradually sculpted the songs into expansive, timeless forms. Across tracks crowned by the title piece The Ground