- rock
- 60 min
- 19 tracks
- EMI
Comfort of Strangers is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Beth Orton. The album was recorded in just two weeks at New York's Sear Sound studio in the spring of 2005, with musician and composer Jim O'Rourke as producer. It features Orton on guitar, piano and harmonica with O'Rourke on bass, piano and marimba and the American percussionist Tim Barnes on drums.
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Spare, grave, character-led and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- 1Worms2:04
- 2Countenance2:23
- 3Heartland Truckstop2:48
- 4Rectify2:27
- 5Comfort of Strangers3:19
- 6Shadow of a Doubt3:58
- 7Conceived3:28
- 8Absinthe4:02
- 9A Place Aside2:19
- 10Safe in Your Arms4:28
- 11Shopping Trolley2:52
- 12Feral Children3:35
- 13Heart of Soul3:51
- 14Pieces of Sky3:09
- 1What We Begin3:31
- 2On My Way Home3:09
- 3Comfort of Strangers # 93:17
- 4Did Somebody Make a Fool Outta You...?2:16
- 5Northern Sky2:58
19 tracks, 60 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Beth Orton
- Label
- EMI
- Released
- 2006
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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