Out of Season (Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man album)

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Out of Season
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Studio album by
Released28 October 2002 (2002-10-28)
Genre Folk, jazz, classic pop [1] [2]
Length43:46
Label Go Beat!
Producer
  • Beth Gibbons
  • Paul Webb
Beth Gibbons chronology
Out of Season
(2002)
Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
(2019)
Rustin Man chronology
Out of Season
(2002)
Drift Code
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 83/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [6]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [1]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [2]
Pitchfork 5.7/10 [7]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
Spin B+ [10]
The Village Voice B− [11]

Out of Season is a studio album by vocalist Beth Gibbons (of Portishead) and bassist Paul Webb (under the pseudonym Rustin Man, formerly of Talk Talk). It was released on 28 October 2002 in the United Kingdom and on 7 October 2003 in the United States. Out of Season is largely a folk album with jazz leanings, with Gibbons and Webb drawing more directly on the influences of Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Nick Drake, at which Portishead's work in trip hop only hinted. Out of Season also features contributions from Gibbons' fellow Portishead bandmate Adrian Utley and Webb's former bandmate Lee Harris. The first track of the album, "Mysteries", appears on the original soundtrack of the French movie Les Poupées Russes (The Russian Dolls), and in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting from 2008. The album achieved a silver certification from the BPI.

Contents

Commercial performance

The album charted in some countries, peaking at number 28 in the UK, [12] number 13 in Germany, number 36 in Switzerland, number 54 in Austria, number 19 in France, number 77 in Netherlands, number 6 in Norway and number 39 in Denmark. [13] "Tom the Model" was released as a single on March 3, 2003, and reached number 70 in the UK. [14] A video for the song was directed by Chris Bran and it featured Gibbons performing in front of a theatre crowd. The album was re-released in October 2019 on vinyl and entered the British charts at number 24.

Track listing

All songs written by Beth Gibbons and Paul Webb, except where noted otherwise.

  1. "Mysteries" – 4:39
  2. "Tom the Model" – 3:41
  3. "Show" (Gibbons) – 4:26
  4. "Romance" – 5:09
  5. "Sand River" (Webb) – 3:48
  6. "Spider Monkey" – 4:10
  7. "Resolve" – 2:51
  8. "Drake" – 3:54
  9. "Funny Time of Year" – 6:48
  10. "Rustin Man" – 4:20
American edition bonus track
  1. "Candy Says" (live) (Lou Reed) – 5:20

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Charts

2002–2003 weekly chart performance for Out of Season
Chart (2002–2003)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [15] 54
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [16] 39
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [17] 77
French Albums (SNEP) [18] 19
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [19] 13
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [20] 6
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [21] 36
UK Albums (OCC) [22] 28
2024 weekly chart performance for Out of Season
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [23] 177

Certifications

Certifications for Out of Season
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [24] Gold10,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [25] Silver60,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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