Daybreaker (Beth Orton album)

Daybreaker
Studio album by
Beth Orton
Released16 July 2002
StudioRidge Farm Studio · Surrey · Eastcote Studios
Genre
Length51:28
LabelHeavenly (UK) - HVNLP 37
Astralwerks (U.S.)
ProducerBeth Orton, Victor Van Vugt, Ben Watt
Beth Orton chronology
Central Reservation
(1999) 		Daybreaker
(2002) 		The Other Side of Daybreak
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic70/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
E! OnlineB+[1]
Mojo[3]
NME(8/10)[4]
Pitchfork Media(4.8/10)[5]
Rolling Stone[6]
Slant Magazine[7]
Spin[8]
Stylus Magazine[1]
Uncut[9]
Village Voice(mixed)[10]

Daybreaker is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter Beth Orton released in 2002 on Heavenly Records and the Astralwerks Records label. The album reached #40 in US and #8 in UK. Mojo Magazine called the album "her best to date...".[11] Q Magazine was not excited about the album: "Tortoise-pace strumming and a crippling shortage of choruses produce only torpor".[12][13] The album earned Orton a nomination at the BRIT Awards for Best British Female Singer as well as Best Album at the Q Awards.

In an interview to Insound.com on 28 July 2002 she said about making the record:

"We recorded 25 songs in two weeks with the whole band. Then there's the stuff I did with Johnny. There's stuff all over the place. And these are the ten songs that ended up being on the record because for me they encapsulate the mood best of the time we are recording the album. It took about six months altogether. That's not too bad. It was probably actually a year because I was looking for someone to do the mixing and things weren't working out."[citation needed]

As of 2003 it has sold 169,000 copies in the United States.[14]

  1. ^ a b c "Daybreaker by Beth Orton". Metacritic. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ^ Daybreaker at AllMusic
  3. ^ "Daybreaker". Mojo: 102. 1 September 2002.
  4. ^ "Daybreaker". NME: 33. 27 July 2002.
  5. ^ "Pitchfork Media review". Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2008.
  6. ^ "Daybreaker". Rolling Stone. 25 July 2002. p. 72.
  7. ^ "Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Daybreaker". Spin: 128. 1 September 2002.
  9. ^ "Daybreaker". Uncut: 108. 1 September 2002.
  10. ^ Pearse, Emma (3 September 2002). "A Bit of a Dag". Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  11. ^ Mojo Magazine, 8/02, p.102
  12. ^ Q Magazine, Aug 2002, p.131
  13. ^ Album reviews at cduniverse.com
  14. ^ "Orton Seeking 'Comfort' with New Album". Billboard. 3 November 2005.