Central Reservation [Australia Bonus Tracks] (2000)

About this title: On her stunning sophomore album, Central Reservation, Beth Orton slips free of the electronic textures that colored her acclaimed 1996 debut, Trailer Park, stripping her music down to its raw essentials to produce a work of stark simplicity and rare poignancy. With the exception of a pair of Ben Watt-produced tracks ("Stars All Seem to Weep" and a remix of the title cut), Central Reservation rejects synthetic sounds and beats altogether in favor of an organic atmosphere somewhere between folk, jazz, and the blues; the focal point is instead Orton's evocatively soulful voice, which invests ... read more

Tracks:

1. Stolen Car [Orton]
2. Sweetest Decline [Orton]
3. Couldn't Cause Me Harm [Orton/Barnes/Read]
4. So Much More [Orton]
5. Pass in Time [Orton]
6. Central Reservation [Original Version] [Orton]
7. Stars All Seem to Weep [Orton]
8. Love Like Laughter [Orton/Barnes]
9. Blood Red River [Orton]
10. Devil Song [Orton]
11. Feel to Believe [Orton]
12. Central Reservation [The Then Again Version] [Orton]
13. Best Bit [Orton]
14. Precious Maybe [Orton]
15. Central Reservation [Spiritual Life/Ibadan Edit] [Orton]
16. Central Reservation [William Orbit Remix] [Orton]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.