Comfort Of Strangers

2006, Feb 13

Apple Spotify Singer-Songwriter Folk Pop 90 Parlophone UK Pitchfork 7.2/10 A.V. Club C NME 3/5 Rolling Stone 3.5/5 All Music 3.5/5 The Skinny 3/5 Gigwise 9/10 The Observer 2/5 Slant 4/5 Pop Matters 6/10 The Guardian 3/5 music OMH 4/5

Pitchfork 7.2/10 After MOR disappointment Daybreaker, the English chanteuse teams with Jim O'Rourke on this mellifluously voiced collection of songs.

A.V. Club C If only Beth Orton's new album had been released before Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine and after Cat Power's The Greatest, the continuum of strong-but-melancholy modern female songwriters would have remained perfectly linear. Comfort Of Strangers, delivered last in that sequence, makes perfect sense between…

The Observer 2/5 Barney Hoskyns: Minimalist collection does pop's favourite chilled folkie few favours.

Slant 4/5 Comfort of Strangers finds the incisive Orton paired with producer Jim O’Rourke to great effect.

Pop Matters 6/10 You can't help but feel a bit for Beth Orton and the position she occupies in 2006.

The Guardian 3/5 (EMI)