The third release from the lanky and mysterious British siren, is far from disappointing but too often finds her straying from the thing that makes her so cool. Namely the warm scratch of her voice and her angular take on the pop ballad. Like a sharp piece of candy her voice is as piercing as delicious and when she applies it to her simple and honest ballads it puts me in mind of the things that made some of us older folks fall in love with Suzanne Vega. But just like Vega, Orton all too often drifts away into 6-minute excersizes in unfocused atmospheric haze. I love this CD however because of the song "Concrete Sky." A melancholy, but sprite neo-folk duet with former beau Ryan Adams, that sports the best chorus hook of any song this year. I could listen to it fifty times in a row. The other notable gem on the album "This One's Gonna Bruise," is a song that Adams wrote for Orton. It too is a song worthy of repeated listens, but, for me it's the only other track that leaves much of a mark.