Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers

Review by John Brainlove

What a dreamy girl. See: Beth Orton in a dusty cowboy hat, guitar case covered in flower stickers slung across her back. Beth Orton in faded denim hotpants, hitchhiking the American highways. Mercilessly stealing indieboy hearts with her saucer blue eyes and wispy summer hair, last night's brown eyeliner and chipped blue nail varnish, cross-legged in dirty trainers, playing under the shadow of a tall swaying tree on an endless summer afternoon...»