Trailer Park (Legacy Edition)

Digitally re-mastered 2 CD 'Legacy Edition'. 1996 saw the release of Beth Orton's acclaimed debut album 'Trailer Park'. With its fusion of folk, 60's girl group harmonies and electronica, it encompassed the sounds of the late 1990s. This special edition features live versions of 'Galaxy Of Emptiness', 'Touch Me With Your Love', as well as early versions of 'Demons' and 'Best Bits'. It also includes collaborations with the legendary Terry Callier on tracks such as 'Dolphins' and 'Lean On Me', making this collection the ultimate must-have for fans. Sony/BMG. 2008.

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