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My Top 20 Albums of 1997 (21 items)
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Beth orton made a stunning debut in 1997 with this fusion of folk rock and electronica. She, along with David gray, straddles the line between acoustic folk rock and 90s electronica very successfully. This album and David Gray's 'White Ladder' are the two albums that I love most in the folk-electronica genre. The fusion is best symbolised on this album by the opening track 'She Cries Your name' an... read more

Description: 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. 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 e 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.


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

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