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BETH ORTON - Comfort Of Strangers
| StylusMagazine |
| Singer-songwriter Beth Orton has been blessed—or cursed, depending on how you look at it—to have collaborated with a great many artists over the course of her longer-than-you-probably-thought career (it stretches back to the early 1990s). The list is damn impressive: the Chemical Brothers, Red Snapper, William Orbit, Andrew Weatherall, Terry Callier, Dr. John, Ben Watt, Johnny Marr, Ryan Adams, and Emmylou Harris, among others. And while the results of these team-ups have, for the most part, been very good indeed, they have left listeners wondering: Who exactly is the real Beth Orton?...full text |
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| CokeMachineGlow |
| Since production is what defines Beth Orton’s latest, Comfort of Strangers, I might as well cut to the chase and state that it was produced by Jim O’Rourke. Yes, Jim O’Rourke -- the Jim O’Rourke who revitalized Wilco on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, co-produced A Ghost is Born, is a member of Sonic Youth, has released upward of a dozen of his own recordings, and has produced the work of a schwack of other artists....full text |
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| ShakingThrough |
| Beth Orton’s Comfort of Strangers opens with “Worms,” a song possessing a deliberate cadence and urban snap akin to something generating royalties for Fiona Apple. What’s going on here? Where’s the wistful, reservedly introspective Orton sound her base has grown accustomed to? Not to worry, faithful listeners: The subsequent track, the lovely, comparatively sedate “Countenance,” bears all the familiar Orton hallmarks -- gorgeous voice, emotional delivery undercut by Protestant decorum, and clever but not showoff-y lyricism....full text |
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