Trailer Park | ||||
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Studio album by Beth Orton | ||||
Released | 19 October 1996 | |||
Studio | Wessex · Maison Rouge · Matrix | |||
Genre | Folktronica | |||
Length | 59:33 | |||
Label |
Heavenly (UK) - HVNLP 17 Dedicated (US) |
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Producer | Victor Van Vugt, Andrew Weatherall | |||
Beth Orton chronology | ||||
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Trailer Park is the solo debut album by British singer Beth Orton. Combining folk, electronica, and trip hop elements, it earned Orton two BRIT Award nominations. The only single from the album was the opening track, "She Cries Your Name", which previously appeared in a different form on William Orbit's album Strange Cargo Hinterland. All songs were co-written by Orton except for a cover version of Phil Spector's "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine." The album was among the first to fuse elements of 1960s and 1970s folk with modern electronica and trip hop.
An expanded two-disc Legacy Edition was released internationally on 10 March 2009.
Chris Jones of BBC Music called Trailer Park "a very English record" and wrote that "only on the poppier 'Don't Need a Reason' or 'Someone's Daughter' does she go badly wrong."
All songs written by Ted Barnes, Ali Friend, and Beth Orton except where otherwise noted.
In Live As You Dream the line "we live as we dream alone" is from Heart of Darkness the 1902 novella by Joseph Conrad. See .
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone