Description

Label: Dedicated – 61702-44007-2 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: Apr 29, 1997 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Folk Rock, Soft Rock, Downtempo Track Listings 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 Beth Orton is the rare vocalist who exists between disparate worlds; she is a singer with a folkie soul who is as comfortable accompanied by an acoustic guitar as by electronic rhythms. Indeed, most people first heard her on William Orbit's Hinterland album and on the Chemical Brothers' Exit Planet Dust. Likewise, her slightly askance vocal style seems to betray naiveté, while lyrically there is a world-weary depth that the latest spate of tough-talking Lolitas cannot muster. Each song's closely observed details create small ripples that grow to substantial emotional waves by album's end; this very promising debut should be the harbinger of great things to come from Orton, with or without the help of a Lilith Fair or anything beyond the integrity of her songs and the wise lilt of her voice. --Alan E. Rapp