Trailer Park (album)
Trailer Park | ||||
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Studio album by Beth Orton | ||||
Released |
19 October 1996 10 March 2009 (Legacy Edition) | |||
Recorded | at Wessex, Maison Rouge and Matrix | |||
Genre | Folk, folktronica, trip hop | |||
Length | 59:33 | |||
Label |
Heavenly (UK) - HVNLP 17 Dedicated (US) | |||
Producer | Victor Van Vugt and Andrew Weatherall | |||
Beth Orton chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Entertainment Weekly | A−[2] |
Pitchfork Media | (8.0/10)[3] |
Q | [2] |
Rolling Stone (1996) | [2] |
Rolling Stone (2004) | [4] |
Pitchfork Media Legacy Edition review | [5] |
Rolling Stone Legacy Edition review | [6] |
Trailer Park is the solo debut of British singer Beth Orton. Combining folk, electronica, and trip hop elements, it earned Orton two BRIT Award nominations. The only single from the album was the opening track, "She Cries Your Name", which previously appeared in a different form on William Orbit's album Strange Cargo Hinterland. All songs were co-written by Orton except for a haunting, sparse take on the Phil Spector composition, "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine." The album was among the first to fuse elements of 1960s and 1970s folk with modern electronica and trip hop.
An expanded two-disc Legacy Edition was released internationally on 10 March 2009.
Critical reception
Chris Jones of the BBC called Trailer Park "...a very English record", and "Only on the poppier Don't Need A Reason or Someone's Daughter does she go badly wrong."[7]
Track listing
All songs written by Ted Barnes, Ali Friend, and Orton except where otherwise noted.
- "She Cries Your Name" (William Orbit, Orton) – 4:47
- "Tangent" – 7:29
- "Don't Need a Reason" (Ted Barnes, Orton) – 5:04
- "Live as You Dream" – 2:59
- "Sugar Boy" – 4:21
- "Touch Me With Your Love" – 7:27
- "Whenever" – 3:53
- "How Far" – 4:27
- "Someone's Daughter" – 4:16
- "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 4:43
- "Galaxy of Emptiness" – 10:07
2009 Legacy Edition
CD One as above
CD Two
- "Safety"
- "It's Not The Spotlight"
- "Galaxy Of Emptiness (live at Shepherds Bush Empire, 26 November 1996)
- "Pedestal"
- "Touch Me With Your Love (instrumental)"
- "It's This I Am I Find"
- "Bullet"
- "Best Bit (early version)"
- "Best Bit"
- "Skimming Stone"
- "Dolphins (feat. Terry Callier)"
- "Lean On Me (feat. Terry Callier)"
- "I Love How You Love Me"
- Tracks 1-2 from B-side "She Cries Your Name" single, 1996.
- Tracks 3-4 from B-side "Touch Me With Your Love" single, January 1997.
- Track 5 from B-side "Touch Me With Your Love" vinyl 10-inch, 1997.
- Track 6 from B-side "Someone's Daughter," March 1997.
- Tracks 7-8 from B-side "She Cries Your Name" (re-release), June 1997.
- Tracks 9-12 from "Best Bit" EP, December 1997.
- Track 13 from "Mojo" soundtrack album, July 1998.
See also
In Live As You Dream the line "we live as we dream alone" is from Heart of Darkness the 1902 novella by Joseph Conrad. See wikiquotes of Joseph Conrad.
References
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r260761
- 1 2 3 http://www.tower.com/trailer-park-beth-orton-cd/wapi/106453572
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20030219084207/www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/o/orton_beth/trailer-park.shtml
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA404&dq=
- ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12898-trailer-park-legacy-edition/
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/26334034/review/26414866/trailer_park_2008_remastered_version
- ↑ Chris Jones (6 March 2009). "Beth Orton Trailer Park Review". British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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