Beth Orton

Daybreaker displays an exciting new direction for Orton. The overall mood is lighter than on previous albums -- which gives her mainstream appeal -- yet the new songs remain profoundly alternative. Featured guests include Ryan Adams, Emmylou Harris, and the Chemical Brothers.

British singer-songwriter Beth Orton has one of those voices so hot-wired to her heart that
she could jam with Mantovani and the result would still be raw. On Daybreaker, Ben Watt of
Everything but the Girl piles on the orchestration, mixes fat stacks of swanky instrumental
harmony louder than her voice and studio-polishes the tracks until they sparkle like the
tinsel on a tree. But it all still sounds like an Orton album, just as sure as a hangov... More >