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Sugaring Season

September 28, 2012
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Product Details

  • Original Release Date: October 2, 2012
  • Release Date: September 28, 2012
  • Label: Anti/Epitaph
  • Copyright: 2012 Anti, Inc.
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  • Total Length: 37:17
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  • ASIN: B009CO0SI4
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,810 Paid in Albums (See Top 100 Paid in Albums)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Beth Orton - Remerges from "the sweetest decline"
By Red on Black on October 3, 2012
Format: Audio CD
What is known as the Sugaring Season runs in Vermont from around March to mid-April. It is when producers all around the state collect maple sap and boil it down to the sweet sticky syrup. It is the same maple trees that lead to that stunning sweep of colour in the vibrant fall foliage. Beth Orton's new album seems to combines both events. It is very much a hymn to Autumnal and pastoral moods but combined with a lovely bruised fragility which makes this album such a real treat.

Gone is all the shimmering electronica and digital files of the dallainces with Andy Weatherall or the Chemical Brothers, indeed the template is much more in tune with her frequent collaborations with Ryan Adams. Following a lengthy hiatus to bring up her daughter this is her first album in six years that firmly sticks to the acoustic knitting and is all the better for it. In that time she built up a considerable backlog of songs and in the selections here has largely chosen wisely. Opener "Magpie" has a bluesy tint to the essential folk based melancholy. It builds to a big finish as Orton's vocals stretch and the intensity ratchets up. More gentle are the following tracks, the lifting pop of "Dawn chorus" and the almost Nick Drake sounding guitar backdrop to "Candles" where Orton's haunting vocals are at their very best. The slow piano ballad laden with violins "Something more beautiful" is an undoubted highlight and will replay repeated listens. One sour note comes in the form of the Weimar cabaret of "See Through Blue" where she tries to adopt a Dietrich style loftiness but it all feels rather contrived and breaks the flow of the album. Still it comes in under two minutes and is followed by "Last leaves of Autumn" which is one of the best things Beth Orton has ever done.Read more ›
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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Glad to See Her Back
By T. A. Daniel on October 2, 2012
Format: Audio CD
A lot has changed since Beth Orton's last album six years ago: she's now a wife and a mother. For all that may have changed in her life, her music is as good as it has ever been on SUGARING SEASON. Orton has all but dropped the electronic influences of her past in favor for a more mystical, roots-based brand of trippy instrumentation. The production here works wonderfully, sometimes feeling loose and relaxed, at others tense and slightly paranoid; each song is able to create a nice landscape for Orton to wander in. Songs range from the childlike "See Through Blue," the melancholy and jazzy "Something More Beautiful," the skittering and beautiful "Dawn Chorus," and the elegaic closing track "State of Grace." What shines here though, is Orton's voice. Simultaneously captivating, soulful, and trancelike, her vocals fill up every song to the brim.

The closest point of comparison I can think of is Cat Power (circa her release of THE GREATEST). The weakest point of this album is that it starts off so strongly - the second half of the album doesn't quite live up to the first; it's not as adventurous or experimental, suggesting that Orton is best when she's pushing herself creatively. Essential tracks to sample/download: "Magpie," "Dawn Chorus," and "Candles." This is a great autumn/winter record - one that you can lose yourself in for a while.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Most mature work yet; different from the rest
By M. Lavender on October 8, 2012
Format: MP3 Music
The songs on this album are different from most of her earlier work, with alternate tunings and different vocal registers on some of the songs. And there's no electronica here. You won't get as many catchy, "pop" songs, but you will get more mature songs. This is as good as anything else she's done, but in a different way.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Still has a beautiful, perfect voice.
By bongo on December 11, 2012
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A far cry from her Central Reservation CD, i know the hard core fans still love it and excuse me for not loving it but the songs are not as catchy or arranged as well as "Central.". Her voice is still PERFECT and the writing is still very , very professional and the recording production very top notch but I am the type to like the catchy songs. She's a wonderful songwriter and has the voice of an angel. Good CD ,hope it grows on me as I keep listening.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
6 years
By smiles on November 7, 2012
Format: Audio CD
I was so happy to see Beth Orton come out with a new album. I was beginning to wonder if she dropped out of the scene. 6 years has gone by-and I still remember buying her last album the day it came out. I wasn't a fan of it and felt with that voice, she fell flat on that album. I bought this album on vinyl and was very surprised how much she didn't disappoint. Her voice is still as heavenly as it once was. There are songs that stand above the rest and then there are a couple that seem to dwindle on a little to long and get lost in it all. I will admit I do like the album and love the cover. I missed her. She reminds me of my days with red hair and having nothing but time on my hands. I feel she is an artist that has gone unlooked and hopefully people will catch on to her.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Classy, smooth and melodic
By John Nelson on October 29, 2012
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This CD is classy, smooth and melodic.
Beth Orton's voice has subtly matured and developed richness in tone and depth from her Trailer Park and Central Reservation days. This release is worth the wait.

Beth had been kicking these songs around for some time, as I'd seen her perform some of these live in an acoustic stripped-down fashion at the Melbourne Athenaeum on the 20th January, '12.
I'd read in InPress that Beth Orton was playing at the Athenaeum that night. She was back touring some 6 years after her last album.
Thought, why not, booked a ticket that afternoon, headed into town from work. Walking to train station, I got the sad news my niece had just died of cancer.
Feeling a bit sombre, I was pleasantly surprised with this concert, done in an unplugged style with piano and guitar accompaniment. The lilt and the melodies just lifted my mood.
The content was full of new songs, I thought that some were better and stronger than anything she'd done prior.

I guess the gestation period of musical product is subject to the marketing whims of recording companies.
All the tracks are melodic and tuneful, simple arrangements, piano and guitar-based, building depth with subtle strings, woven into the lilt and rise of Beth's voice.
Where does this music fit in genre ? Call it indie alt-folk if you like. Just slap it on the CD platter when you want to de-stress and mellow-out your mood.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

I liked her earlier records more

I liked her earlier records more. This seems polished, but it seems to lack that brooding quality I like in her music.

Published 20 days ago by Malcolm D. Woade
I do love it, a n d even so much more ...

I do love it, a n d even so much more than "Central."
Really. I play it/ cd in the car a n d when my sister
Comes for lunch I Must have it on the phonograph for... Read more

Published 1 month ago by DWFarmer
Five Stars

great!

Published 2 months ago by Michael R. Ricker
Five Stars

highly recommend

Published 7 months ago by James freels
Five Stars

Bought it for one song - Loved them all

Published 8 months ago by WILLIAM T MCKNIGHT JR
Astonishing music

If you like Beth Orton, this is the album to have. The songs are astonishingly beautiful. I saw her in concert not long after the CD came out and that added to my enjoyment of... Read more

Published 13 months ago by a New Yorker
What she said

I liked Beth's first album and her second but then she stated to loose me. This is more like her beginnings but with the seasoning of a mature pro. Recommended.

Published 16 months ago by John D. Gerndt
This is her best.

I have loved Beth Orton's music since Trailer Park and Central Reservation, but lost connection to it over the past few years. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Mari Cordes
Magpie!

I am loving Beth Orton's Sugaring Season, especially "Magpie." Blows me away every time! Can't believe I didn't pick this one up sooner.

Published 18 months ago by ash_liz
wonderful

Great album, nice listen to, easy on the mind. her abeyance is great diffidently Beth Orton I Am very glad to have bought this CD

Published 20 months ago by keith sargent

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