Reviews (page 8 of 8)
This is sonically pleasant, with nice instrumentation and vocals, but the song writing doesn't set me on fire. Perhaps a grower. The title track is probably my favourite.
Okay, but a bit poppy for me
Not my kind of music, I find it slow and uninteresting.
Inoffensive music is fine sometimes - I don’t always need to be offended. There’s a fine line between inoffensive and boring though, and I feel like this album treads that line. There were moments here and there that I appreciated but the album peaked at track 1 for me and then dropped off.
5/10 Bien commencé, s'est vite essouflé. Rien qui a capté mon intention. du folk ben basic
Stolen Car is brilliant, the rest meh!
So Beth, what separates you from the countless other female singer-songwriters out there? And if there is something, why didn't you let it shine through here? The late 90s gave birth to so much of this beige music (and not just female either, I mean Badly Drawn Boy and David Gray and Damien Rice and Ryan Adams and everyone else). It's music that belongs in romcoms and doesn't do a whole lot else. Dido was a lot better. 2.
Boring
This one dragged for me, I need some pep with my airy ballads
This album sounds like something I've heard before. "The Stolen Car" video -- lol I had that outfit in 1999! White cardigan and a black silk embroidered skirt. This feels tinged with nostalgia and I can't quite my finger on what it sounds like. Definitely hear Sublime in this album...maybe when I shouldn't? I liked "Stars All Seem to Weep" for that familiarity to something that is more of a haunting. I don't think I'd listen to this again. I experienced it for sure. Reminds me of 1999. And then not.
Your typical lilithfaire stuff. Inoffensive to the ears, but it never moves beyond memorable musically.
Someone could swap the vocals between any of the tracks and nobody would notice.
This is an odd album. It seems like if Norah Jones was a bit more experimental and less poppy and catchy. The songs are very 90s Esque with the style and melody. Overall it never really got me excited but there were a couple songs that were more enjoyable than others. It definitely feels dated and doesn’t give me much to want to revisit. 5.3/10
Sometimes interesting electronic textures can’t save this collection of Lilith Fair-light gloomy tunes.
I'm really wanting to give this album some praise, but I cannot figure out why it made this list. It's just another stock alt 90s record. This was a dime a dozen in its time, and I can't say anything special jumps out to me about this one.
My Central Reservation in rating this album any higher than 2 stars is based on a complete lack of memorability.
De openingstrack en Love Like Laughter vind ik best nice. Het album bevat wel een paar zeiknummers waarbij haar stem gaat irriteren, bijvoorbeeld het ruim 7 minuten durende 'Pass in Time' en 'Blood Red River'. Ik vind het niet slecht, maar ik hou er gewoon niet zo van. 2 sterrekes voor mij.
It's a well trodden genre and dozens have done it better, including artistes before Beth
I listened to this last week and I don't really want to listen again because now I'm behind on albumssss. I really like one track by Beth Orton called She Cries Your Name, I had it on a playlist when I was a teenager and it reminds me of some nice memories. God knows how I came across just this one song. I really like the vibes of that track it evokes a lot of different feelings and has a cool sound with a really nice guitar riff. Alas, this track is not on the album Central Reservation and nothing on this album stood out to me at all!!! Maybe I'll spend some time listening to her other work but this album wasn't doing much for me. Nice sounds but nothing jumping out as that interesting.
OK I'm sorry but this album made me so angry. Needless to say I did not like it at all. Beige wishy washy irritating repetitive songs that lacked flare or creativity. Lame lyrics and irritating singing, which I think was a style of the time. A bit Dido? Anyway, I'm sorry as I think other people might describe this as inoffensive, because it's not objectively horrible music is it? But that's what did offend me. A big no
I like the idea of Beth Orton but this just does not excite me.
Snooze fest
Just boring
Very chill, but has lots of generic floaty oohs and ahhs which I don't rate tbh, and they piano/keyboard they used sounds pretty bad Also singing somewhat out of tune on purpose seems to be a theme here Overall feels really dated, not sure I get it 1.5/5
I don't know why but I found this album so boring, I barely got through it.
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My wife loves this album. I’m less enamoured of the folksy musing though I recognise the musicianship on display.
Not bad, just a little too sedate for my likings. I think I’m failing to hear what’s special about this album because it sounded like generic indie singer-songwriter to me.
Nice enough sound
I didn't find anything particularly memorable on this album after Stolen Car. Just a wave of dirge-adjacent folk tracks that all bleed together.
Non offensive, but boring. Like an Ali Express version of Shawn Colvin.
Nimikkokappale hieman muita kiinnostavampi, muuten varsin tylsäksi jäävä levy. Lisäksi tuotannon puolella kauheita ysärijuttuja, jotka rasauttaa vieläkin. 2/5
I liked a few of the more folky songs, but I didn't care for the songs that sounded like basic somber female singer-songwriter stuff. Favorite was Blood Red River or Devil Song
Gave it an honest listen....just don't get it....
Slow
1.5.
In 1967, the French literary theorist Roland Barthes published an essay called La mort de l'auteur, known in English as Death of the Author, where he argued that the traditional view of the author's intentions and biography providing the definitive reading of the text was false, that the author's life and claimed purpose for the text were irrelevant to criticism, and that the multiplicity of interpretations a reader could derive should hold precedent (if an author does give their intention regarding a text, then all they are doing is proving their interpretation as a reader, which is prima facie no better or worse than any other reader). To illustrate this, consider the hypothetical of a monkey bashing away at a typewriter whose random stabs produce a variation on Hamlet where (spoiler) Hamlet survives. Should we take into account the monkey's mindset when it wrote this distorted masterwork? If you try and say yes to that, you're just being a dick. Anyway, Beth Orton. I could not place the name Beth Orton at all before I received this album for review. It turns out she had guest-sung on a few dance tracks, and that she had achieved some critical kudos during the late 90s with her fusion of folk and electronica, or folktronica if you will. Now, the idea of folktronica seems one of those ideas which for the first second seems clever but then suddenly becomes cringeworthy; funk metal is a more extreme example of this phenomenon. The reason folktronica becomes embarrassing so quickly is because of its advertised cleverness: "oh look," it says, "I'm such a smart merger of two disparate genres! I combine the lyricism and naturalness of folk with the starkness and prescience of electronica! I could very well be the music of the Moon!" Yes, in that it's as sterile and as lifeless as the Moon. Now this album doesn't feature that much electronica, with most tracks performed on acoustic instruments. If asked, I would say the album aims for the sound of Nick Drake's Bryter Layter, which is Nick Drake's warmest album. But that's where the issues of the album rise to the surface. You can remember Nick Drake's voice and songs. Beth Orton's voice, by no means bad, isn't distinctive enough make the songs memorable. I've listened to the fucker three times, and I could not tell you one lyric from it beyond the word "the", let alone any thematic conceits. Along with that, the songs themselves are not distinguishable from each other. So we get these folky sounds that drift along for an hour to no real goal. One review I saw on this site said the reviewer neither liked nor disliked it, but "just... experienced it". Which, if you think about it, results in this being an ambient album. It's an album to put on in the background, to become wallpaper or recirculated air. I don't suppose for a picosecond that this was intended as an ambient album, but as a sincere, updated folk album. Yet as I said at the beginning, the creator's intentions don't matter. What matter here are the work itself and the interpretation the listener gives it, and this listener considers it an ambient album. So how does it work as an ambient album? It's alright, I guess. Bit coffee-shoppy, bit predictable because of that, bit unengaging because of that predictability, bit disappointing because of that lack of engagement. You could say that distance from the listener is the intention of a ambient album, but I reply that you can ram your intentions up your fudgetunnel. noRadio, signing off.
This is exactly what I'd imagine of an album by Beth Orton, except without having "She cries your name" on it. I'm almost entirely certain that it's haunting and beautiful and shit, but dear gods it is boring. It is the soundtrack to a low budget independent film where a mid-to-late-twenties woman breaks up with a forty-something man because he's incapable of socialising without alcohol, doesn't want to settle down and hasn't had quite enough of a health scare yet to convince him to start jogging daily. As she sits sobbing on the back of a bus, Beth Orton's music highlights how broken her heart is. I am the forty-something man with the low-grade alcohol dependency and all I can say is "FFS pet, WTF were you thinking? Listen to some Dido instead, at least that has some remix value."
Many reservations. But I liked the half where she sounded like Carole King.
Dull. I even listened to this in a hipster coffee shop and felt nothing
Very “meh” album for me, nothing memorable about it
It was fine, but honestly, kinda boring. I listen to a lot of music that's downtempo, and even I had trouble getting through this one. Some standout moments for sure, but mostly kinda unmemorable. I have a feeling that even the songs I saved I'll end up skipping on playlists down the line. Standouts: Stolen Car, Couldn't Cause Me Harm, Pass in Time, Stars All Seem to Weep, Love Like Laughter
discovered Beth Orton from her more recent album, Weather Alive (which I like much better), but I enjoy this era of Lilith Fair musicians so this was pleasant enough. I would probably have liked this when I was younger
Inoffensive but pretty boring. Felt like a slog to get through at just under an hour. I have an appreciation but it’s just not for me
Maybe something to listen on a calm autumn night, in the background... Not particularly exciting.
Ok singer-songwriter
Bonito pero no esencial.
Can't say its is a particularly original or entertaining album
This is bland, inoffensive indie-folk background music. There are plenty of parts where I thought "that's a nice lyric" or "that instrument sounds good". Can't say I found it enjoyable or memorable overall. 2.5*
First song was good, rest of the album just blended into one.
There are some amazing guitar tones and riffs going in the first track, and then they completely disappear never to be heard for the rest of the album. All that's left is an hour of bland, stereotypical 90s singer-songwriter minutiae that's a shadow of what the opener promises.
Not really a fan, feels like this style got played out in the 90s
Folktronica, really? Fuck right off. I love folk but I hate electronica, it's pineapple on pizza all over again. Now that I'm listening though, I don't think folktronica is the right genre label for this... it's just more like Norah Jones if she smoked in the bathroom because of peer pressure, trying too hard to be cool. This sucks, but it's way lighter on the electronica than I expected so my ears appreciated that.
These songs are fine. I think that Beth Orton is a competent songwriter. Stolen Car is pretty good. The rest I found to be passably boring.
Esperava mais pelo vocal feminino. Mas soou como mais um pop bem cantado apenas.
Ten album był zupełnie nieremarkable. W sensie OK, ładnie zaśpiewane, ale daję 2 trochę z przekory - mam dosyć albumów w tym challenge'u, które brzmią jak nieinwazyjna muzyka w jakiejś kawiarni. Wolałbym już zaznajomić się z realnie przełomowym albumem, który mi się nie spodoba
Eh. One song was kinda good the rest was just the lady singing.
I don't know what to make of this. It's not bad, but most of these songs just made me shrug. The first one or two tacks were quite OK, but I couldn't get into the rest, fast forwarding my way to the end of the album. 2/5
I wanted to likes this. But the hard H before every vowel is too distracting.
I had heard of Beth Orton, but this was my first time hearing her music. I liked it.
Britisk singer/songwriter, afslappende, følsomt, lidt kedeligt
Nije za mene, prošle su 2 pjesme ja sam mislio da sam na pol albuma kolko sporo ide. Dodatna jer nije lose ko jedinice.
4/10
pretty chill but very forgettable 2.5
This was revelatory in the sense that I've finally been able to pin down the sound I encountered at numerous university open mic nights. Sleepy, hazy, slightly smokey, an aversion to consonants - this is Orton's singing style, and subsequently that of many lesser campus imitators. Anyway, this is a bit disappointing, because much of the promising material gets lost in Orton's rather monochrome delivery. It's an arresting voice at first, but the ersatz keening melancholia wears thin after a while. 'So Much More' is easily the highlight, and the one time where I think we hear a range of colours in Orton's voice. She should've leaned into the light goth-folk a little more; unfortunately, much of the filigree on Central Reservation comes from bland electronica instrumentation. The start of 'Stars All Seem to Weep' sounds like something from the soundtrack to Streets of Rage II.
didnt love it. felt like a lilith fair album that wasn't as good as paula cole, sarah mclaughlan, or ani difranco
Soundtrack to a chick flick. And a bad one at that. Don't deny the talent. Just not for me
Nothing incredible or unique about this album. Songs are pretty generic, sounded very late 90s indie pop. Wasn't really interested most of time
Her voice is really nice but the album was pretty boring. It didn't keep my attention, just turned into background music.
Fängt gut an, es passiert allerdings im weiteren Verlauf nicht mehr viel. Ziemlich eintönig das ganze.
This is pleasant, but it's a little too pleasant. It's too easy to put this on and for the music to just dissolve into the background, vague mood music. Maybe I'm stuck on the songs Beth did with the Chemical Bros, that combined her wholesome folky vocals with bold electronica that captured the mood (and maybe I'm nostalgic for that part of the late 90s). So yeah, it was pleasant to listen to but I can't tell you what I just heard.
Some albums are just nice and nothing more. For me this is one of them. My second time having this one come up in my daily listen. 2/5
This album started off so well.......then it went to crap!!
You have to be in the right mood to appreciate this album. A slow kind of mood where you want nothing to do with productivity. I wasn't in this mood 2.4
When was this list made? I can't imagine if it was updated now, this record making the cut. Don't get me wrong, its a very solid record. But it also seems unremarkable in the grand picture of all recorded music. White privilege? Haha. The production is great and I like when singer/songwriters are ok with weird sounds and instrumental interludes. I also really like the honesty of her voice. It sounds sweet but she also isn't over-trying.
Meh
very boring
I couldn't get through it. Didn't hate it. Just not my style.
She has a really beautiful voice, but I have never liked this genre of music because it reminds me of being one of the last kids to be dropped off by the afterschool bus everyday - something that I always hated. It was always dark and quiet with this type of music playing.
I need to throw a [citation needed] on the Wikipedia page - \"folktronica\" this is not, with only one song really having a beat. Fine but not my favorite.
Muy largo para mi gusto. Disco medianón pero tiene unas 4 rolas muy cabronas. Luego suena muy Cat Power, ¿no? Si Cat Power quisiera cantar "bonito", cantaría así.
It sounds to me just like some generic Alanis Morissette cover band. I'm not sure who came first, but this does not matter, it is just very boring.
boring
Meh.
Not bad, just a bit boring. 6.7/10
Couldn't finish it. Dross.
Nur in der richtigen Stimmung.
Meh
Gorgeous voice but all a little dull really
All the same pace throughout, rather uninteresting.
These "singer-songwriter" albums always seem to be very hit or miss for me, and this was a bit of a miss. Enjoyed Stolen Car, and that was about it - everything else was much too slow and frankly a bit boring. Not the best album to come back to after a bit of a hiatus Saved: Stolen Car
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Central Reservation - The Then Again Version Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: This is alternate reality Tracy Chapman, down to the biggest song being Adjective + "Car", except it's boring
While I like Orton, I find the album too ordinary.
Hardest album to rate until now. For background music it might be an option (but not too loud), but a few songs felt like someone was nagging all the time. I might be too harsh for this one
Ik zat op het puntje van mijn stoel, deze zangeres kende ik niet. Helaas vond ik het al vrij snel afzwakken en was mijn aandacht verdwenen. Jammer
ehhhhhhh... Forgot each tune by the next bar. Think its music for your first period
Klinkt best goed, maar ik was er niet helemaal voor in de stemming.
Not bad, but not interesting at all
Boring.
Bit warbly.
Kinda boring to me
Ok but not really my thing
I like the general feel of the music, but I get distracted by some of the things she does with her voice. Dragged on a bit for me.
Das ist ein überflüssiges Album
So little instrumentation and effort can make my shoulders go up to my ears from how awful the songs make me feel inside, but it's also not bad, it's just drivel with a droning voice
Not a big fan.
completely unremarkable.
Folky, I get why it's on the list but not for me.
pretty good recent folk album with electronic backing. Not sure if this one will stand the test of time.
meh
It's OK but it's a little too alternative for me. I need trippy-er music.
Lepposaa taustamusaa
Screw it this is the start of my reckoning where albums that are just bland get 1s, cause I’m sick of hearing boring albums I supposedly should have listed to
Why is this on here?
She reminds me a bit of Joni Mitchell, but not in a “oh wow I really like her” kind of way. Some of her vocals are straight grating. Other times, quite beautiful. The style is equally as inconsistent. Most of it is female folk singer blah. But then there are some techno-y sounds songs here too? I mean… it’s ok I guess. But ok won’t keep me coming back.
Meh
There are two versions of the same song on this album. Like all songs, it was so forgettable that I forgot anything about how it sounded when it came around the second time. Just awful.
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Not for me Tried a couple of songs, found it extremely boring. Turned it off and put on Spilt Milk by Jellyfish instead. Favourite track: New Mistake (by Jellyfish)
Yeesh...
Boring
Musically, it's a tepid bowl of oatmeal. But the music is an afterthought, right? It isn't the point. She's in a class with Nick Drake, Jackson Browne, Carole King, James Taylor, Sarah McLachlan. . . : lyricists heralded for their emotional depth and sensitivity for whom music seems like a vehicle; a logistic to be attended to rather than a magical universe to be explored. What really bugs me about this lot, though, is that their lyrics always come across as humorless and overly-earnest self-absorption; like the worst people to get stuck sitting next to at a dinner party.
Demasiado abajo y parecidas
Bad
post-apocalyptic folk, maybe? at the end of side 1 and every song has blended together into an indistinguishable blur of [___] vocals, strummed guitar and mild string backups. the only reason i know it's halfway is that i happened to check spotify. oohhhh this track has a *drum machine beat* i can't this is too boring 1/5
Den här jävla sångfraseringen ”HEEE HEEE HEEEE” i slutet på varje mening, ibland varje ord, ibland MITT I ETT ORD?! ”Ange-hee-heel”. Blir galen. Vet att hon vill att jag ska känna känslor, men är död inombords. Så satans daterat brittiskt piss, återigen. Så kommer lite everything but a girl-electronica där i mitten. Vem fan pallar det en längre stund? Har skittråkigt.
Eh
Like walking through quicksand.
Скучная шняга
I keep trying to find redeeming qualities in this album but this was just not for me at all. Voice was grating, folky style did not hit today, just everything worked against Beth Orton for me today. Hard to finish, rare 1 star
Not a fan of it
Eh
I tried but this was a very boring album, her vocals are actually really nice and remind me a bit of dido, but all that does is annoy me because it lets me know that I can listen to a more exciting album with just as good vocals and not have to skip through songs.
2.5, rounded down. Stealing cars was good but the rest was not. Just too much of the same and the production just hurts my ears
wack.
Don't know which is worse, this or Suzanne Vega's debut album. As bland as boiled chicken.
Un álbum insípido, monótono, aburrido, sin gracia, denso, repetitivo, sin chispa y olvidable. Se mantiene en una misma linea que no despega..
Easy listening, fine but nothing special 1 - doesn't deserve to be on this list
Snooooooooooore
boring as hell
o álbum mais peito de frango sem sal e sem tempero que já veio pra mim no app
Couldn’t get past the voice
Whiny
No
vid fjärde låten trodde jag att jag redan hade lyssnat om albumet.. men nej det var bara så generiskt att det lät likadant..
Literally nothing in this album even registered my attention until Stars Seem to Weep. And that was solely due to the change in backing track
Pretty dull
Pretty bland a flavorless.
Mellow
I tried to get a sense of purpose from this. Who is it for? What's the motivation? Massively overblown. My opinion is that you really need to earn a symphony on your album, you can't just toss off... whatever, and create drama with the string section. This album checks a box on some record company's list in the late 90's: Post-grunge 4 piece heavy rock act (like Bush)? CHECK Spicy girl group? CHECK Whiny angst-addled indie rock act that forgot to tune up and the singer sounds drunk? CHECK R&B group, R&B female singer, R&B male singer, dance music, rap, and or all of the above at the same time: CHECK, CHECK, CHECK Female pop vocalist... " Hey, Bill, we don't have a female pop vocalist anywhere do we, I need to check a box on this Corporate Music Form™?" "Yeah, Bob, lemme look... hm, best I can do is that sort of monotone trip-hop act called Beth Orton." "I haven't heard it, have you?" "No, Bob I sure haven't!" "Works for me, Bill!" Both laugh hysterically and drive off in Bill's Porsche to golf.
Ik voelde m niet
Not for me.
Ewwwwwww snoozefest
did not enjoy. DNF
Trodde ikke jeg skulle mislike denne, men.....
Really bad.
I don't hate it but this did nothing to me.
Nothing new or exciting
Not for me. Load of ballads.
Boring zzzzzzzzzz
11/1001 I was looking forward to this, as Beth Orton was an artist that mostly passed me by in the 90s - I remember its predecessor, Trailer Park, being a half-decent album at the time. Sadly, this collection doesn't do anything for me. Well-worn chord progressions with less ambitious arrangements than Beth's previous effort, it runs out of steam by the second track and never really picks up momentum again, save for the trip-hop treatment of Stars All Seem To Weep just after the halfway point, by which time it is too late to lift the mid-paced, wistful mood. A mood which, of course, may have been precisely the one Beth Orton was aiming for, but it was not one which I felt I could really engage with. Beth's lyrics are poetic and mature, but there is nothing memorably melodic to hang them on, and I soon found myself zoning out. I'm sure this album has an audience, although I am equally sure I'm not it.
Wannabe Joni Mitchell whines her way into the same discount bargain box as Dido
Her voice isn't bad and fits the music well, but I can't stand how she seems to keep adding syllables into words. It's very distracting to me and make me want to stop listening by the end of the first song. I made it halfway through before I had to listen to something else for a while. Not something I'd willingly listen to again. 1.5/5
This reminds me of Natalie Merchant. I hate Natalie Merchant.
just too boring for me (bought a cd copy of it at the time so certainly gave it a try)
Ouch, that voice was not good. Unpleasant tone, irritating style, and simply out of tune in several places.
Just can't get on with Berg Orton's voice. My fault, not hers. That said, Joan Armatrading had better be on this list somewhere...
1/5. After many instances, I have to believe that if an album is at all associated with the Mercury Awards, there is a 90% chance it is pretentious and or not good at all. Unfortunately, this one was one of the 90%. I wanted to remain interested but it just kept dragging on for what seemed like the same 4 chords through the whole album. I wanted to like it because she has a very nice voice but it is not enough to save this one. Just so boring honestly and hard to imagine anyone can sit through the whole thing without wanting to change it or just walking away. There some okay takeaways but listening to these all the way through is not the vibe. Best Song: Feel To Believe, Stars All Seem To Weep, Stolen Car
I really hate folk. This one slipped past the censors because its genre is officially "folktronica" but really only a handful of these falls under that umbrella. I liked maybe 3 of the songs and the rest were just not my thing at all.
Dull
Boring
# Playlist Track - Stolen Car # Notes - Bad britpop. Annoying, uninspired, bland. - The only decent track is the first one, that is kind of discount Alanis Morrisette. - One of the worst I've listened to, so far.
Had a hard time finishing this. So long and aimless. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood but hearing one limo song after another for an hour really got to me.
1. car - 1 2. decline - 1 3. harm - 1 4. more - 1 5. time - 1 6. central - 1 7. ztarz - 1.5 8. laughter - 1 9. river - 1.5 10. devil - 1 11. believe - 1 12. rezervation - 0
The most blandest shit I’ve heard. I could eat plain white bread with nothing on it & it’ll still be less bland than listening to this album
Die Achterbahnfahrt geht weiter. Nach einem absoluten Klassiker (The WHO) folgt ein Album, welches sich nach interessant klingendem Start zunehmend als Langweiler entpuppt. Schade!
Not my cuppa tea, at all
Boring
Every other song was fine. Nothing grabbed me. Florence and Alanis do this better
If Andersonville had a soundtrack. Boooooooooooring.
slumber
First listen Saved 1/12 Top track: Stolen Car
Toen ik de hoes zag, wist ik eigenlijk al voldoende. Vrouwelijke singer-songwriter uit de 90s. Dat betekent zielenroerselen van een twintiger met Dr Martens en een slobbertrui, die op haar slaapkamer teveel naar Joni Mitchell heeft geluisterd. En dat is ook precies wat we voorgeschoteld krijgen. Het is allemaal veel te traag en ze jankt echt als een soort Joni over haar pianootje, gitaar of viool heen. En dan nog een uur lang ook nondeju. Joni had tenminste aan een halfuurtje genoeg. Halverwege komt er nog een halvegare krolse kater meekrijsen. Man man man, haar stem is echt verschrikkelijk. Ik hoop dat we nu de periodieke portie Joni weer hebben gehad en we er nu weer voor even van af zijn. Anders moet ik elke keer weer zo'n rant over haar afsteken, maar dat betekent ook elke keer weer opnieuw dat alle energie aan me onttrokken wordt en ik weer opnieuw moet opladen. Gelukkig weet ik al dat ik straks een plaatje van the Eagles krijg om weer bij te komen.
Ajan kliseistämää laulelua + tasaisen keskitempoinen ysäribiitti (tai ei). Pettymyksenä jostain syystä erityisen harmittava.
Sorry, I just can’t abide her voice
Until today, I had no idea who Beth Orton is. Her 1999 album 'Central Reservation' seems to me, to be a mixed bag of sentiments. The track 'Sweetest Decline' carries an evocative quality, reminding me of the kind of song Nigella Lawson might choose to underscore one of her Christmas shows when everyone is turning up to the feast at the end. However, the overall tone of the album, marked by its mellow and laid-back vibe, positions it as pure background music. It's the kind of record that, for some, could seamlessly fade into the sonic backdrop of daily life without leaving a lasting impact. Personally, I found the album to be outside my musical preferences, and I must admit that I didn't even complete the entire listening experience. While tastes in music vary, 'Central Reservation' didn't resonate with me, prompting the realisation that not every album is destined to strike a chord with every listener.
I really didn't like this album. Her voice is so annoying. She sang a song called couldn't cause me harm, well she did a lot of harm to my ears. The songs were all dreary and miles to long. I would rather get tortured by the devil then have to listen to his album again.
I just found it mildly irritating at the beginning, by the end I wanted it so badly to be over. Super freaking dull.
Managed about 15 seconds. He voice and annoying affliction did my tits in.
Nej tack
Boring. Did not finish.
Boring, just like every other singer-songwriter album in this experiment
Hard Pa$$
tweedious
boring as fuck
Totally not my thing and probably the least listenable album so far. Might have to go back and revise my Zeppelin rating for this one.
Do not know...
My gaawwwd c'est plate!! Je suis fan de trucs downtempo mais ça c'était une torture! Ennuyant comme les pierres. Le pitch bend sur le vibraphone synthétique c'est non... Une toune à 2 accords qui a pour highlight l'entrée de bongos passé 5 minutes...ouf... La toune avec un beat trip hop est moins pire mais en général c'est long, c'est loooong pis il se passe pas grand choses. Occasion manquée de dynamiser le tout avec les strings, les arrangements sont très simplistes, trop. Tant qu'à leur faire jouer des roots à l'unisson mets en pas... Bref: pas pour moi visiblement. Peut-être l'intérêt est dans les paroles, j'écoute pas beaucoup ça, mais les bouts que je pognait sont pas transcendant...
Je ne vois pas l’intérêt. Elle chante à reculons. Pu capable.
Une voix intéressante. L’album démarre bien avec la pièce Stolen Car où le jeu de guitare est très intéressant, mais par la suite, ça devient un folk générique un peu ennuyeux pour moi et sans grande nouveauté. Quand on lis sur elle, on la reconnaît pour le son folktronica et on n’a pas ça ici. Son premier album aurait été plus approprié.
Zegnajcie halcyonowe dni, witaj kolejny wyspiarski picku, tym razem z gatunku babskiego grania, wylosowalo Central Reservation pani Beth Orton z rocznika 99, czyli muzyka folkowo popowa, z naciskiem na pop ze wzgledu na nature babskich problemow, bo jest to kolejna plyta na ktorym artystka wylewa z siebie jak to jej w zyciu zle i ciezko, bo przeciez milosc smutki i niesprawiedliwosci, instruemntalnie jest to dziwne polaczenie typowych dla folka akustycznych instrumentali z czyms nowym, elektrykiem, ale nie instrumentalnym, a muzyka elektroniczna, wiec beaty elektrykowe do ktorych brzdaka jakas gitara sa tutaj na porzadku dziennym, wsrod licznych producentow tego krazka pojawia sie takze nazwisko pana Watta z everything but the girl, ktorzy sie juz przewineli na liscie, a u ktorych jakos naturalniej pasowalo takie polaczenie elektrycznych synthow i akustykow, no ale nie mozna miec wszystkiego, albo czegokolwiek jak w tym wypadku, bo cale 58 minut central reservation najlatwiej okreslic jako bylejakie, niezapadajace w pamiec i sklaniajace do przemyslen nad tym czemu tylko kobiety potrafia wylewac z siebie smutki nad soba przez bita godzine, a ktos moze sie pod tym podpisac i jakos nawiazywac kupujac lub sluchajac tego krazka z wlasnej nieprzymuszonej woli
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Very repetitive tracks.
Prepare yourself for a come down. Middle of the road folk, Beth’s voice has a slightly discordant resonance that to my ears clashed in places. Once the album was done I had to funk up the place to get me back on happy street. Cheer up Beth, it might have already happened but you don’t have to keep reliving it.
Eh
Veel van het zelfde, erg "anoukig"
1.5
Awful.
relaxing, soothing, nocturnal, mellow, melancholic