Comfort Of Strangers
by Beth Orton
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 29
  3. Negative: 3 out of 29

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  1. DavidK.M
    Mar 8, 2006
    1
    Solid, long-time fan here. Without question the worst Orton album she's ever released. Maybe three decent cuts -- with the rest rambling, bambling, shrilling, sinking. Can someone explain to me the positive reviews listed above? Am I in some alternate reality where people have ears on the bottom of their feet? What a disappointment.
  2. ddjames
    Feb 17, 2006
    3
    I love Beth Orton. But this album is total bore.
  3. SteveS
    Feb 26, 2006
    3
    Her most boring CD so far. Very dull and uninspired. I'd pick up Central Reservation instead.

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Amazon.com
    80
    Both her most musically spare and artistically complex [album] to date.
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  2. NOW Magazine
    80
    While Orton has a tendency to mimic her own melodies, she explores jazz structures here in engaging, exciting ways, and the indigent heartland iconography of her lyrics is beautiful without being cloying.
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  3. Spin
    83
    Unerringly lovely, but best when the drums heat up. [Feb 2006, p.87]
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