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Beth Orton - Trailer Park

Trailer Park

by Beth Orton

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Released
17/03/1997
Music Genre
Alternative
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Description

A folkie for the electronica age, Beth Orton brilliantly bridges the gap between acoustic songcraft and digital dance beats with her extraordinary debut album, Trailer Park. Fusing the plaintive emotional power of the singer/songwriter tradition with the distanced cool of trip-hop rhythms, Orton creates a fresh, distinct, and surprisingly organic sound without obvious precedent; blessed with a warm, ethereal voice capable of adapting comfortably to Spartan folk ("Whenever," a touching cover of the SpectorGreenwichBarry-penned "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine"), buoyant pop ("Live As We Dream," "How Far"), and spacey, densely layered electronica ("Tangent," "Touch Me With Your Love"), she shifts gears with remarkable ease, the depth and clarity of her unique perspective connecting even the most disparate tracks together into a unified whole. Simply put, Trailer Park is one of the most promising and innovative debuts of its era.

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Product Details

Artist
Beth Orton
Number of Discs
1
Recording Environment
Studio
Label / Studio
DEC
Media Content Format
Album
Original year of release
1996
Media Format
Audio CD
Year of release
2000
Cast & Crew
Beth Orton (Music Performer)
Victor Van Vugt (Producer)

Press Reviews

England's Orton...pioneers a new genre--ambient folk--on her potent debut. Orton swings engagingly from despair to resolve, supported by slurred synthesizers and trembling acoustic guitars..." - Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly (5/2/97, p.60)

Ranked #24 in NME's 1996 critics' poll. NME (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67)

4 stars out of 5 - "...an album for which the hammock might have been invented: slow, sedate, but as warm as the evening sun....this is a sublime, incense-scented joy from start to finish. Q (4/00, p.112)

Included on Spin's list of "Unheard Music" - "Like a silver-jacketed rave kid who's still a card-carrying member of the Village Green Preservation Society, Brit singer/songwriter Orton situates her haunty, folky wails on top of city-slicker dance beats... Spin (1/98, p.88)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. She Cries Your Name
  2. Tangent
  3. Don't Need a Reason
  4. Live As You Dream
  5. Sugar Boy
  6. Touch Me with Your Love
  7. Whenever
  8. How Far
  9. Someone's Daughter
  10. I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine
  11. Galaxy of Emptiness

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