Editor Obession
By Caite White, senior writer
Posted on April 24, 2006

Beth Orton’s Comfort of Strangers is a delightful mix of pop-rock and folk music. With her Iron and Wine-esque acoustics and unexpected libretto (thanks, Microsoft Word, for your synonym-finder), Orton’s latest album — whose cover, unfortunately, looks like a Thomas Kincade poster — has been the perfect backdrop for this rainy weekend.

Notes from Jewel (pre-ladies’ razor commercial jingles), the Indigo Girls and pretty much any band on the “Garden State” soundtrack appear in different tracks throughout the CD, too.

My favorite song? The very first track, “Worms.” In it, Orton sings, “Chickens don’t fly, but they’ve got the wings/No matter how hard they try, they bump into things.” Okay, so it’s a little juvenile, but it’s fun. Gimme a break.