A folkie for the electronica age, Beth Orton brilliantly bridges the gap between acoustic songcraft and digital dance beats with her extraordinary debut album, Trailer Park. Fusing the plaintive emotional power of the singer/songwriter tradition with the distanced cool of trip-hop rhythms, Orton creates a fresh, distinct, and surprisingly organic sound without obvious precedent; blessed with a warm, ethereal voice capable of adapting comfortably to Spartan folk ("Whenever," a touching cover of the Spector/Greenwich/Barry-penned "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine"), buoyant pop ("Live as We Dream," "How Far"), and spacy, densely layered electronica ("Tangent," "Touch Me with Your Love"), she shifts gears with remarkable ease, the depth and clarity of her unique perspective connecting even the most disparate tracks together into a unified whole. Simply put, Trailer Park is one of the most promising and innovative debuts of its era.
This weekend is my last ever Community Festival in Columbus, or as it is lovingly referred to , Comfest.http://www.comfest.com/schedule.htmIt is the biggest non-sponsored, community organized, free music festival in the country...without a doubt the best three days of the year.So if any of you are on good terms with God or Mother Nature or whoever is in charge of the making it rain....could you...
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Review of Legacy Edition of Trailer Park by Beth Orton
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