Before Weather Alive, Beth Orton's eighth studio album, the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter—who has three decades of releasing music in her rearview—was thinking, “It probably was time to gracefully bow out,”
It was a combination of life events that led Orton to this thought. Orton's health has always been less than ideal, primarily due to, with her two toddlers on the tour bus. She took them with her again four years later for the album .