Blog: TwentyFourBit

Beth Orton's Jim O'Rourke-produced Comfort of Strangers has been a go-to reference for perfect mixes around here since 2006, not to mention hearing the songs on all of her records since the mid-'90s consistently rewards a patient listener. Orton takes her time with this material, too, and her latest set is no different: Sugaring Season  arrives this October after a 6-year gap, in which she had a baby and, in her words , "reassess[ed]" the impetus behind her work. Today brings the first single - a moving, piano-ballad slow dance called "Something More Beautiful" - and [...]