Out of Season (Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man album)

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Out of Season
Studio album by Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
Released	28 October 2002 (2002-10-28)
Genre	Folk, jazz, classic pop[1][2]
Length	43:46
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
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Blender	[5]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[6]
The Guardian	[1]
Los Angeles Times	[2]
Pitchfork	5.7/10[7]
Q	[8]
Slant Magazine	[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.