Trailer Park [Legacy Edition]

Disc 1
1	She Cries Your Name 4:47
2	Tangent 7:29
3	Don't Need a Reason 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 4:42
11	Galaxy of Emptiness 10:10
Disc 2
1	Safety 2:12
2	It's Not the Spotlight 4:19
3	Galaxy of Emptiness Live 5:51
4	Pedestal 4:57
5	Touch Me with Your Love Instrumental 6:37
6	It's This I Am I Find 3:50
7	Bullet 4:38
8	Best Bit Early Version 3:06
9	Best Bit 4:17
10	Skimming Stone 5:50
11	Dolphins 4:18
12	Lean on Me 5:08
13	I Love How You Love Me 2:38

Barnes & Noble

Although she's a woman with a guitar and a passel of affecting songs, it's wrong to call English singer-songwriter Beth Orton a folkie. In fact, Orton first gained notice via her collaborations with such electronica artists as Red Snapper, William Orbit, and the Chemical Brothers, and her 1996 debut album, Trailer Park, features spare backing that varies from light trip-hop soundscapes to ethereal art pop. But no matter how you categorize her, Orton's voice and songs win on their own terms. Her singing carries a world-weary lilt not unlike that of English folk matron Linda Thompson; her lyrics are plaintive ruminations about loss and longing. On "Live As You Dream," a song in which she off-quotes Joseph Conrad by way of Gang of Four, she cynically snaps at her lover with subtle barbs like, "If you've taken me for someone who cares/There's a dream that we both have shared." In "She Cries Your Name," she cribs a melodic motif from "Stairway to Heaven" and weds it to a gorgeous folk epic. In an age chock-full of hipster waifs and Lilith maidens in waiting, Orton is a distinct voice and a powerful talent. Martin Johnson

All Music Guide

Arista/Legacy's 2009 Legacy Edition reissue of Trailer Park remasters the original 1996 album and expands its length to a double-disc set by adding a second CD collecting all the stray tracks Beth Orton released in the wake of her debut. All the B-sides issued on the CD singles of "She Cries Your Name," "Touch Me with Your Love," and "Someone's Daughter," along with the instrumental of "Touch Me with Your Love" issued as a B-side, to a vinyl 10" of the single of the same name, are here, along with the 1997 EP Best Bit plus "I Love How You Love Me" from the 1998 Mojo soundtrack. All this material maintains the hazy, stylish electronica-folk feel of Trailer Park, capturing that specific vibe better than any of her subsequent albums, so this offers longtime fans of the LP what they've always wanted: more of the same but at the same high level of quality. Stephen Thomas Erlewine