Trailer Park (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Trailer Park
Type = Album
Artist = Beth Orton


Released = October 1996
Recorded = at Wessex, Maison Rouge and Matrix
Genre = Pop
Length = 59:33
Label = Heavenly (UK), Dedicated (US)
Producer = Victor Van Vugt and Andrew Weatherall
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:bt508qtnbtm4 link]
* "E! Online" (A-)
* "Details" Rating|9|10
* "Q Magazine" rating|3|5
Last album = "Superpinkymandy"
(1993)
This album = "Trailer Park"
(1996)
Next album = "Best Bit"
(1997)

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"Central Reservation"
(1999)

"Trailer Park" is the solo debut of 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 60s and 70s folk with modern electronica and trip-hop.

Track listing

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

#"She Cries Your Name" (William Orbit, Orton) – 4:47
#"Tangent" – 7:29
#"Don't Need a Reason" (Ted Barnes, Orton) – 5:04
#"Live as You Dream" – 2:59
#"Sugar Boy" – 4:21
#"Touch Me With Your Love" – 7:27
#"Whenever" – 3:53
#"How Far" – 4:27
#"Someone's Daughter" – 4:16
#"I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 4:43
#"Galaxy of Emptiness" – 10:07

ee also

In "Live As You Dream" the line "we live as we dream alone" is from Heart of Darkness the 1902 novella by Joseph Conrad. See .