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Trailer Park (album)

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Released
  
19 October 1996

Artist
  
Beth Orton

Label
  
Deconstruction Records

Length
  
59:33

Release date
  
19 October 1996

Genre
  
Folktronica

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Recorded
  
Wessex, Maison Rouge and Matrix

Trailer Park (1996)
  
Best Bit (1997) Central Reservation (1999)

Producers
  
Victor Van Vugt, Andrew Weatherall

Similar
  
Daybreaker, Comfort of Strangers, Pass in Time: The Definitive, Superpinkymandy, The Other Side of Daybreak

Trailer Park is the solo debut album by British singer Beth Orton. Combining folk, electronica, and trip hop elements, it earned Orton two BRIT Award nominations. The only single from the album was the opening track, "She Cries Your Name", which previously appeared in a different form on William Orbit's album Strange Cargo Hinterland. All songs were co-written by Orton except for a haunting, sparse take on the Phil Spector composition "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine." The album was among the first to fuse elements of 1960s and 1970s folk with modern electronica and trip hop.

Contents

An expanded two-disc Legacy Edition was released internationally on 10 March 2009.

Critical reception

Chris Jones of BBC Music called Trailer Park "a very English record" and wrote that "only on the poppier 'Don't Need a Reason' or 'Someone's Daughter' does she go badly wrong."

Track listing

All songs written by Ted Barnes, Ali Friend, and Beth Orton except where otherwise noted.

  1. "She Cries Your Name" (William Orbit, Orton) – 4:47
  2. "Tangent" – 7:29
  3. "Don't Need a Reason" (Ted Barnes, Orton) – 5:04
  4. "Live as You Dream" – 2:59
  5. "Sugar Boy" – 4:21
  6. "Touch Me with Your Love" – 7:27
  7. "Whenever" – 3:53
  8. "How Far" – 4:27
  9. "Someone's Daughter" – 4:16
  10. "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 4:43
  11. "Galaxy of Emptiness" – 10:07
2009 Legacy Edition bonus disc
  1. "Safety"
  2. "It's Not the Spotlight"
  3. "Galaxy of Emptiness" (live at Shepherds Bush Empire, 26 November 1996)
  4. "Pedestal"
  5. "Touch Me with Your Love" (instrumental)
  6. "It's This I Am I Find"
  7. "Bullet"
  8. "Best Bit" (early version)
  9. "Best Bit"
  10. "Skimming Stone"
  11. "Dolphins" (featuring Terry Callier)
  12. "Lean on Me" (featuring Terry Callier)
  13. "I Love How You Love Me"
  • Tracks 1–2 from B-side "She Cries Your Name" single, 1996.
  • Tracks 3–4 from B-side "Touch Me with Your Love" single, January 1997.
  • Track 5 from B-side "Touch Me with Your Love" vinyl 10-inch, 1997.
  • Track 6 from B-side "Someone's Daughter" single, March 1997.
  • Tracks 7–8 from B-side "She Cries Your Name" single (re-release), June 1997.
  • Tracks 9–12 from "Best Bit" EP, December 1997.
  • Track 13 from Mojo soundtrack album, July 1998.

    • Songs

    1She Cries Your Name4:47
    2Tangent7:29
    3Don't Need A Reason5:04

    References

    Trailer Park (album) Wikipedia
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