Pass In Time - The Definitive Collection

Product DescriptionTracks 11.She Cries Your Name2.Someone's Daughter3.Touch Me With Your Love4.Sugar Boy5.Galaxy of Emptiness6.I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine7.Best Bit8.The Same Day9.Stolen Car10.Sweetest Decline11.Pass In Time12 .Central Reservation13.Concrete Sky14.Thinking About TomorrowDisk 21.Central Reservation (Spiritual Life - Ibadan Remix) 2.Where Do I Begin feat The Chemical Brothers3.Stars All Seem To Weep4.Safety5.Pedestal6. Dolphins feat Terry 's Not The Spotlight8.Don't Wanna Know 'bout Evil9.Where Do You Go10.Water From A Vine Leaf Feat William Orbit.Pass in Time: the Definitive Collection is bound to do well because, frankly, people like Beth Orton. It's as simple as that. While she hasn't exactly set the world on fire since first coming to our attention as one half of Spill alongside , she's always boasted a most reliable voice that, while neither particularly unique nor entrancing, can sell a song most efficaciously. Similarly, while it is highly unlikely that Beth is anybody's absolute favourite artist of all time, her appeal is exceptionally broad. When the need a surrogate female larynx for their populist electronica they invariably call on Beth she's a stalwart of Radio 2, a less spiky and consequently more palatable Sinead O'Connor and during indie rock's 1996 heyday, NME's typically Britpop-hugging critics embraced Orton's career-encapsulating "She Cries Your Name" iron horse as their single of the week. Pass in Time, meanwhile, throws out no less than 24 reasons why we like Beth Orton. Here are feather-light emotions, mellifluous, casually delivered vocal gymnastics, heartstring-stroking coffee-table melancholia, solo highlights and collaborations with the aforementioned Chemicals, William Orbit and . It's a solid, engaging anthology. It's unlikely to steal your heart and soul but you'll like it a heck of a lot. --Ian Fortnam