Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
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Artist: Beth OrtonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Music Label: Astralwerks
Soundtracks:
- Worms
- Conceived
- Comfort Of Strangers
- Heartland Truckstop
- Shadow Of A Doubt
- Safe In Your Arms
- Countenance
- Rectify
- Feral Children
- Shopping Trolley
- A Place Aside
- Absinthe
- Heart Of Soul
- Pieces Of Sky
Music reviews of Comfort of Strangers
Music Review: I only listen to it unintentionally...
Rating: 3 Stars
Comfort of Strangers sits next to all my other Beth Orton albums in my iTunes playlist (Trailer Park, Central Reservation, Daybreaker), and it never gets listened to unless I do a listen-through of Central Reservation and then forget to switch to something else once Comfort of Strangers follows. Despite multiple listens, these songs are just not growing on me in the way that all of Orton's other albums that I own did. Even Daybreaker, which I found originally to not be as captivating as Central Reservation, is well-loved by this point.
Description of Comfort of Strangers
Few vocalists equal the expressive subtlety of Beth Orton, whose fourth album is both her most musically spare and artistically complex to date. Not only does the production and backing by Jim O'Rourke (known for his work with Sonic Youth and Wilco) capture Orton's vocal style at its most unstudied and unvarnished, the lack of embellishment focuses all the more attention on her songwriting. From the jazzy phrasing on the deceptively jaunty "Worms" through the haunting "Feral" and the amazing grace of the closing, hymnlike "Pieces of Sky," Orton's songs give voice to the sort of knotty, prickly emotions that are as hard to define as they are deeply felt. Most of the musical dynamic features piano or guitar over an elemental, insistent rhythm section, making the coloring of an occasional string section ("Conceived"), harmonica ("Absinthe"), or accordion ("Safe in Your Arms") all the more striking. As an indication of the emotional range of this musical minimalism, the title cut is soothing enough to please fans of Norah Jones, while "Heartlandstruckstop" is as edgy as Patti Smith. --Don McLeeseGeneral CDs
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