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Comfort of Strangers

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Released
  
7 February 2006

Label
  
Astralwerks/EMI

Length
  
47:11

Producer
  
Jim O'Rourke

Recorded
  
Sear Sound studio, New York City

Genre
  
Folk, adult alternative

Comfort of Strangers is English singer-songwriter Beth Orton's fourth studio album, the follow-up to 2002's Daybreaker. 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 Beth on guitar, piano and harmonica with O'Rourke on bass, piano and marimba and the American percussionist Tim Barnes on drums.

Contents

Track listing

All songs were composed by Orton, although the title track was written in partnership with O'Rourke and singer-songwriter M. Ward.

  1. "Worms" – 2:04
  2. "Countenance" – 2:23
  3. "Heartland Truckstop" – 2:48
  4. "Rectify" – 2:27
  5. "Comfort of Strangers" – 3:18
  6. "Shadow of a Doubt" – 3:58
  7. "Conceived" – 3:27
  8. "Absinthe" – 4:02
  9. "A Place Aside" – 2:19
  10. "Safe in Your Arms" – 4:28
  11. "Shopping Trolley" – 2:51
  12. "Feral Children" – 3:35
  13. "Heart of Soul" – 3:50
  14. "Pieces of Sky" – 3:09

Limited Edition: Bonus Disc

  1. "What We Begin" – 3:30
  2. "On My Way Home" – 3:08
  3. "Comfort of Strangers #9" – 3:16
  4. "Did Somebody Make a Fool of You?" – 2:16
  5. "Northern Sky" – 2:58

Singles

  • "Conceived", released 29 November 2005 as a digital download, and 31 January 2006 on 7" and CD in the UK.

    • References

    Comfort of Strangers Wikipedia
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