Trailer Park: Beth Orton: Amazon.ca: Music

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

Product Description

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Having collaborated with such dance acts as Red Snapper and the Chemical Brothers, singer-songwriter Beth Orton is sometimes regarded as a young folky hitching a ride on the electronica bandwagon. On Trailer Park, however, she harks back to a lost Seventies tradition whose exponents included Traffic, Tim Buckley and especially John Martyn, all of whom worked in a hazy interface between jazz, blues and folk. Fleshed out with multiple layers of vibes, strings and keyboards, Trailer Park is at once a soul-searching and sensual album, with Orton's flat-edged and indistinct lyrics often seeming to melt in her own mouth. Only "Sweetest Decline", featuring Dr John on keyboards seems slightly twee. Otherwise on the likes of "Couldn't Cause Me Harm" and "Feel To Believe", the pleasures and pains of love are conveyed so tangibly it almost hurts. --David Stubbs

Album Description

Debut album from singer/ songwriter whose vocal talents have previously graced tracks for both Chemical Brothers and Red Snapper. Andrew Weatherall remixed many of the 12 tracks on the album, which includes the singles 'She Cries Your Name', 'Touch Me With Your Love' & 'Someone's Daughter'. This Japanese pressing also includes the bonus track, 'It's Not The Spotlight' as well as including a lyric booklet which is exclusive to this pressing.

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4.3 out of 5 stars (43 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Orton's Trailer Park is first class, Jan 30 2006

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momo_adachi (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trailer Park (Audio CD)

Orton has this deep, breezy, husky, sexy voice that she rolls into different octaves and she uses it with power on each and every one of her tracks. Trailer Park is probably her best offering to date; its beautiful tone and perfectly crafted songs are reminiscent of a type of more subdued, depressed Joni Mitchell character. She's got it, she flaunts it. An overlooked singer and songwriter, Orton demonstrates that she has chops, talent and scads of cred. One of the best songs on a great album is the haunting, deep, airy, creepy 'She Cries Your Name'. In the latter when Beth coos, "how long can this love remain?" you believe her with a passion, and aiding in her quest to find the answer are beautiful guitars, and cello and violin accompaniment. With songs like this, who needs chocolate or sex?

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3.0 out of 5 stars Better in Person, July 17 2003

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"welcher329" (Upper Montclair, N.J. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trailer Park (Audio CD)

After seeing Beth Orton live at Field Day I was impressed by her accoustic solo music, as well as her lively personality. I was so excited to buy this cd based on what I had heard, but was dissapointed when I received it. Very little of the folkish guitar work that I had fell in love with was audible on the CD, and Orton over-layers her work with poppy base and drums. At some points on this CD she reminds me of radiohead (faintly) or Beck (especially on "tangent"), and at times delivers the folk feel that I found so appealing, but for the most part comes off as poppy and frankly, boring. Though this CD is certainly worth buying for tracks 1-3 and 10 and 11, it lacks replay value.

Perhaps I am being overly critical because I had such high expectations for Beth. I would reccomend buying this CD, however, see her live. She is a great musician and a charming personality.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Things must get mighty dull in that chill-out room, Mar 28 2003

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Roy Pearl (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews

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This album always gets hyped as folk meets trip hop, which superficially sounds like an interesting meld. The truth of it is, however, that the "hop" never comes, and all you're left with is a long, slow trip into tired folk. Beth's vocals, during the very few seconds she manages to perk up, have a similarity to Carol King. Some might view that as a recommendation. The unobtrusive atmospherics make this pleasant-enough as background noise for when you're doing something like reading, but if you're doing something more active (like, say, washing the dishes) you might want a less somnambulant soundtrack.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Yaaaaawwnn.....
My gawsh this is a boring piece of work. If anyone has nothing better to do with their money than buy this CD, then they and Beth Orton were probably meant for each other, and... Read more

Published on May 12 2007 by gizzyspal

5.0 out of 5 stars What they say about you, it's true...you know it, too
A lot of bizarre labels have been attached to the music of Beth Orton: Folk and rock, to be sure, but also trip hop, beat hop, treat beat, beat bop, seat crop, and lounge. Read more

Published on Dec 2 2002 by David Blosser