| Comfort of Strangers | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 7 February 2006 | |||
| Studio | Sear Sound, New York City | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 47:11 | |||
| Label | Astralwerks/EMI | |||
| Producer | Jim O'Rourke | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 78/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[3] |
| Mojo | [4] |
| NME | 6/10[5] |
| Pitchfork | 7.2/10[6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| Slant Magazine | [8] |
| Spin | B+[9] |
| Stylus Magazine | A−[10] |
| Uncut | [11] |
Comfort of Strangers is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Beth Orton. 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 Orton on guitar, piano and harmonica with O'Rourke on bass, piano and marimba and the American percussionist Tim Barnes on drums.
- ^ "Comfort Of Strangers by Beth Orton". Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ [10 Entertainment Weekly review]
- ^ [Mar Mojo review]
- ^ "Beth Orton: Comfort Of Strangers". NME. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ Pitchfork Media review Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hoard, Christian (6 February 2006). "Beth Orton – Comfort of Strangers". Archived from the original on 9 January 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Slant Magazine". Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ [Feb Spin review]
- ^ Stylus Magazine review Archived 14 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mar Uncut review