Search - Beth Orton :: Sugaring Season

Erik T. (Spikesmusic) from BELLINGHAM, WA
Reviewed on 4/18/2013...

This album is all shades of gorgeous. I hear influences (real or imagined) peppered in there: "Call me the Breeze" where Lynyrd Skynyrd/J.J. Cale meet the Cocteau Twins, a touch of Nick Drake drops in. Beth tips her hat to Dusty In Memphis, and there's that moment where she does what I wish Karen Peris of the Innocence Mission would reach toward. Evocative, beautiful, wistful.
Some of this is due to the production of Tucker Martine (musical and life partner to the deliciously creative Laura Veirs, and a fine musician in his own right.) Martine draws out an accessible, but never pandering emotional and musical performance in Ms. Orton that I didn't get from her last release.
Four and a half stars for this gem which has been getting many spins at home and in the car.

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