Daybreaker
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Daybreaker is an 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...". Q Magazine was not excited about the album: "Tortoise-pace strumming and a crippling shortage of choruses produce only torpor". 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."
The Japanese version features two bonus tracks: "Ali's Waltz" and "Bobby Gentry", both also on the Concrete Sky EP.
Beth Orton
Beth Orton is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter, known for her 'folktronica' sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica. She was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers in the mid 1990s. However, these were not Orton's first...
released in 2002
2002 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...
on Heavenly Records
Heavenly Records
Heavenly Records, aka Heavenly Recordings, is a London-based record label, distributed by EMI. Founded by Jeff Barrett, a former press officer for Creation Records and many successful indie bands of the time including Happy Mondays, Heavenly Recordings' first releases were 7" and 12" singles for...
and the Astralwerks Records label. The album reached #40 in US and #8 in UK. Mojo Magazine called the album "her best to date...". Q Magazine was not excited about the album: "Tortoise-pace strumming and a crippling shortage of choruses produce only torpor". The album earned Orton a nomination at the BRIT Awards
Brit Awards
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain" or "Britannia", but subsequently became a backronym for British Record Industry Trust...
for Best British Female Singer as well as Best Album at the Q Awards
Q Awards
The Q Awards are the UK's annual music awards run by the music magazine Q. Since they began in 1990, the Q Awards have become one of Britain's biggest and best publicised music awards, helped in no small part by the often boisterous behavior of the celebrities who attend the event...
.
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."
Track listing
- "Paris Train" (Ted Barnes, Orton)
- "Concrete Sky" (Johnny MarrJohnny MarrJohnny Marr is an English musician and songwriter. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, with whom he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with Morrissey. Marr has been a member of Electronic, The The, and Modest Mouse...
, Orton) - "Mount Washington" (Orton)
- "AnywhereAnywhere (Beth Orton Single)"Anywhere" was a 2002 single by English songwriter Beth Orton. It was released both as a CD, and as a DVD and peaked at #55 in the UK charts...
" (Orton) - "Daybreaker" (Orton)
- "Carmella" (Orton)
- "God Song" (Orton)
- "This One's Gonna Bruise" (Ryan AdamsRyan AdamsDavid Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...
, Orton) - "Ted's Waltz" (Adams, Orton)
- "Thinking About TomorrowThinking About Tomorrow"Thinking About Tomorrow" was a 2002 single by English songwriter Beth Orton. It was released on CD, and peaked at #57 in the UK charts. The song appears on the album Daybreaker and the Best Of, Pass In Time....
" (Ted Barnes, Orton, Sean Read, Sebastian Steinberg)
The Japanese version features two bonus tracks: "Ali's Waltz" and "Bobby Gentry", both also on the Concrete Sky EP.
Personnel
- Producer - Victor Van VugtVictor Van VugtVictor Van Vugt is an award-winning music producer, mixer and engineer. An Australian based in New York, he has had a long association with the careers of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Beth Orton. He has also worked with the likes of P.J...
- Addition production - Ben WattBen WattBenjamin Brian Thomas Watt is a British musician, DJ, and record producer, best known as one half of the duo, Everything but the Girl.-Family:...
- Acoustic Guitar - Ted Barnes
- Drums - Will Blanchard
- Engineer - Richard "Dread" Mann
- Assistant Engineer - John McCormack
- Bass Guitar - Ali Friend
- Keyboards - Sean Read
- Mastered By - Miles Showell
- Mixer - Andy Bradfield, Ben Watt