Everything But the Girl — the prolific pop duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt best known for their 1994 club hit “Missing” — have returned today (April 21st) with Fuse, their first studio album in 24 years.
The English music duo went on an amicable, indefinite hiatus in 2000, choosing to go out on a natural high note. Their re-emergence appears to have come about just as organically: “Ironically the finished sound of the new album was the last thing on our mind when we started in March 2021,” Thorn said in a press release. “Of course, we were aware of the pressures of such a long-awaited comeback, so we tried to begin instead in a spirit of open-minded playfulness, uncertain of the direction, receptive to invention.”
Watt adds: “It was exciting. A natural dynamism developed. We spoke in short-hand, and little looks, and co-wrote instinctively. It became more than the sum of our two selves.
The English music duo went on an amicable, indefinite hiatus in 2000, choosing to go out on a natural high note. Their re-emergence appears to have come about just as organically: “Ironically the finished sound of the new album was the last thing on our mind when we started in March 2021,” Thorn said in a press release. “Of course, we were aware of the pressures of such a long-awaited comeback, so we tried to begin instead in a spirit of open-minded playfulness, uncertain of the direction, receptive to invention.”
Watt adds: “It was exciting. A natural dynamism developed. We spoke in short-hand, and little looks, and co-wrote instinctively. It became more than the sum of our two selves.
- 4/21/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
“To sing is to pray twice,” said St Augustine. It’s a haunting line – perhaps celebrating the miracle of human hope over any expectation of divine attention– that Tracey Thorn quotes with aching resonance on Fuse, Everything But the Girl’s first album in 24 years. It’s an album that makes a church of its elegant electronica: all vaulting arcs of yearning melody and glimmers of stained glass that dance upwards, to the familiar urban spire of Thorn’s beautiful, hangdog voice.
“I’ve always been an atheist,” Thorn wrote in a column published in the third month of the pandemic. But, taking her daily walks around a London graveyard, she found her questions and her internal dialogue with her mother (who’d been dead for a decade) beginning to feel “a bit like prayers. How long, oh lord, how long?” Perhaps it’s strange to say, but Ebtg have...
“I’ve always been an atheist,” Thorn wrote in a column published in the third month of the pandemic. But, taking her daily walks around a London graveyard, she found her questions and her internal dialogue with her mother (who’d been dead for a decade) beginning to feel “a bit like prayers. How long, oh lord, how long?” Perhaps it’s strange to say, but Ebtg have...
- 4/20/2023
- by Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
Who would have guessed? Everything But The Girl have returned in one of the year’s most surprising—and welcome—comebacks. The married London duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt quit making music together in 2000, taking time to raise their family while working separately. Fuse is their first collaboration since 1999’s underrated gem Temperamental, which topped off the amazing Nineties trilogy they began with Amplified Heart and Walking Wounded. But Everything But The Girl hit home with their trademark style of ghostly electro-pop, with Thorn’s melancholy voice floating through the glitchy beats.
- 4/17/2023
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Like many people, musicians Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn found themselves in isolation during the pandemic, conjuring up memories of sharing space with strangers on a dancefloor. The time spent indoors would eventually lead the pair, who began releasing music in the Eighties as Everything But the Girl, to find the creative spark that would become their new album, Fuse, out April 21st. The group’s first official release in 24 years.
Speaking via Zoom from the couple’s home in London, Watt, who was diagnosed with the rare autoimmune disease...
Speaking via Zoom from the couple’s home in London, Watt, who was diagnosed with the rare autoimmune disease...
- 4/7/2023
- by Jeff Ihaza
- Rollingstone.com
British duo Everything But the Girl have shared another new song, “Run a Red Light,” from their forthcoming comeback album, Fuse, out April 21.
The song is a smoldering ballad, with producer Ben Watt weaving buzzing synths and heavy kicks around a steady piano progression. Tracey Thorn captures the feeling of invincibility and vulnerability that late-night adventures conjure, building to a hook where she sings, “Run a red light, forget the morning, this is tonight.”
“I met a lot of characters during my years in clubland, and I wrote this song...
The song is a smoldering ballad, with producer Ben Watt weaving buzzing synths and heavy kicks around a steady piano progression. Tracey Thorn captures the feeling of invincibility and vulnerability that late-night adventures conjure, building to a hook where she sings, “Run a red light, forget the morning, this is tonight.”
“I met a lot of characters during my years in clubland, and I wrote this song...
- 3/14/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Swiss electronic music mainstay Edx has put out his first track of 2016, and it’s no stretch to expect to hear it in countless sets leading up to and during festival season. He’s collaborated with vocalist Mingue on “Missing,” a song which straddles the line between deep house and future house tastefully enough to find an audience in either generation of electronic music enthusiasts.
Opening with solitary synth plucks that compliment Mingue’s top line exquisitely, “Missing” sees Edx accomplish more with less by allowing the song’s simplicity of style to build up to a melodic peak. Even though it’s a remake of the 1994 Everything But The Girl classic of the same name, he manages to capture an entirely different feeling than the original.
Listen to Edx‘s “Missing” featuring Mingue by clicking on the SoundCloud embed above and let us know what you think in the comments section.
Opening with solitary synth plucks that compliment Mingue’s top line exquisitely, “Missing” sees Edx accomplish more with less by allowing the song’s simplicity of style to build up to a melodic peak. Even though it’s a remake of the 1994 Everything But The Girl classic of the same name, he manages to capture an entirely different feeling than the original.
Listen to Edx‘s “Missing” featuring Mingue by clicking on the SoundCloud embed above and let us know what you think in the comments section.
- 1/26/2016
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
Things are getting serious on The Voice UK. We've had the blinds, we've had the battles, and now it's time for knockouts - also known as the final stage before the live shows. Yikes, right? Each of the acts had to pick a killer song to convince their coach to put them through to the live shows. No pressure then.
With eight acts in each team and just three spots in the live shows, things were getting pretty intense. Tonight, we were treated to Team Rita and Team Will, and there was no hanging about as we sped through the performances and then got the all important decisions. Read on for everything you need to know about tonight's knockouts...
Team Rita
Rita said she thought her team was amazing - she has different ages, genres and tones - and reckoned that all eight of her acts could make it in the charts.
With eight acts in each team and just three spots in the live shows, things were getting pretty intense. Tonight, we were treated to Team Rita and Team Will, and there was no hanging about as we sped through the performances and then got the all important decisions. Read on for everything you need to know about tonight's knockouts...
Team Rita
Rita said she thought her team was amazing - she has different ages, genres and tones - and reckoned that all eight of her acts could make it in the charts.
- 3/14/2015
- Digital Spy
We've had the blinds. We've had the battles. And now the contestants who are still standing on The Voice UK face the knockouts! Yes, over a double bill this weekend - there's an episode on Saturday and on Sunday - they'll each choose a "killer song" to try to make it into the live shows.
Exciting, right? And to make things even more exciting, we've got the full list of songs the acts have chosen. Rita Ora and will.i.am will pit their teams against each other on Saturday, while Ricky Wilson and Sir Tom Jones will put their acts to the test on Sunday. So without further ado, read on to find out what songs you can expect...
Team Rita
DTwinz - 23, London
'I'm Every Woman' - Whitney Houston
Joe Woolford - 20, North Wales
'Hey Ya' - Outkast
Mitch Miller - 26, London
'You Spin Me Round (Like A...
Exciting, right? And to make things even more exciting, we've got the full list of songs the acts have chosen. Rita Ora and will.i.am will pit their teams against each other on Saturday, while Ricky Wilson and Sir Tom Jones will put their acts to the test on Sunday. So without further ado, read on to find out what songs you can expect...
Team Rita
DTwinz - 23, London
'I'm Every Woman' - Whitney Houston
Joe Woolford - 20, North Wales
'Hey Ya' - Outkast
Mitch Miller - 26, London
'You Spin Me Round (Like A...
- 3/10/2015
- Digital Spy
Gregg Araki's unique coming-of-age story "White Bird in a Blizzard" already has his distinctive imprint on it, but the film's dreamlike atmosphere is aided by the music department. A couple of months back, we brought you a preview of Cocteau Twins member Robin Guthrie and avant pianist Harold Budd's score for the film, and today, we're taking a look at the songs that power the official soundtrack. Featuring, of course, Cocteau Twins, along with New Order, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, and Tears For Fears, the song choices mark out the very specific sound Araki uses to tell his tale. The inclusion of The Jesus And Mary Chain gives things a bit of an edge, while selections by Everything But The Girl brings the music toward the '90s, and Ulrich Schnauss pulls the soundtrack into the new millennium. It's clearly a soundtrack selected and programmed with care,...
- 11/10/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Tony Curtis has identified Tom Waits and Mariah Carey as influences on Notting Hill and Love Actually.
A Waits track was influential in the development of Notting Hill, the filmmaker revealed.
"There's a version of 'Downtown Train' by Tom Waits performed by Everything But the Girl," he said at Cheltenham Literature Festival (via Gloucestershire Echo).
"When I was writing Notting Hill, that was all I listened too. There was something I sensed in the background and in the tone and in the mood of that song which is what I wanted to reach at the best moment of the film.
"Songs have always been an incredibly important bit of the inspiration for me."
Curtis also revealed Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You' inspired Love Actually.
He said that the song "seems to me to completely say how you want to feel about how extraordinary Christmas is".
"In a way,...
A Waits track was influential in the development of Notting Hill, the filmmaker revealed.
"There's a version of 'Downtown Train' by Tom Waits performed by Everything But the Girl," he said at Cheltenham Literature Festival (via Gloucestershire Echo).
"When I was writing Notting Hill, that was all I listened too. There was something I sensed in the background and in the tone and in the mood of that song which is what I wanted to reach at the best moment of the film.
"Songs have always been an incredibly important bit of the inspiration for me."
Curtis also revealed Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You' inspired Love Actually.
He said that the song "seems to me to completely say how you want to feel about how extraordinary Christmas is".
"In a way,...
- 10/6/2014
- Digital Spy
It's been 31 years since Everything But The Girl frontman Ben Watt went out on his own with a solo studio album. Thanks to friend Mark Cousins, the acclaimed Irish critic and director of the 15-part revisionist film history epic "The Story of Film," the title track of Watt's new record "Hendra" now has a music video. Watch "Hendra," exclusive to Thompson on Hollywood!, below. Following a treatment competition, the winning script came from across the pond, penned by British screenwriter Rahim Moledina, who also directed the video for "Hendra." Cousins and Watt supervised the filmmaking, which took place in East London on a shoestring budget. Cousins calls the video, inspired by Watt's lyrics about dreams of his late half-sister, a "mini-masterpiece." See for yourself below. Ben Watt's new record "Hendra" arrives on April 29.
- 2/24/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Welcome to Miss American Idol, an exciting new reality series from Fox where gorgeous, talented women take the stage and sing for your votes — and then the ones with the skinniest legs advance to the finale.
Wait, that’s not an actual show? Then please someone tell me what I spent two hours watching tonight as a white-hot rage percolated through my circulatory system and turned me into the kind of cussing, fork-throwing (yes, I may have slammed cutlery into the hard wood floor), definitely-not-enjoying-myself monster you’d typically see on a show like Bad Girls Club or The Real Housewives of the Ninth Circle.
Wait, that’s not an actual show? Then please someone tell me what I spent two hours watching tonight as a white-hot rage percolated through my circulatory system and turned me into the kind of cussing, fork-throwing (yes, I may have slammed cutlery into the hard wood floor), definitely-not-enjoying-myself monster you’d typically see on a show like Bad Girls Club or The Real Housewives of the Ninth Circle.
- 4/25/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Fox hasn’t officially confirmed it, but sources close to American Idol are buzzing that Season 12 Top 4 week will be a two-theme kind of party: One-Hit Wonders and Contestant’s Choice.
The former — which topped an At&T “fan’s choice” vote — has the potential to be fantastic, as long as producers don’t try to force the contestants toward novelty hits or tired old songs that have been covered on Idol a million times before (and simply happen to qualify under the one-hit wonder header).
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The former — which topped an At&T “fan’s choice” vote — has the potential to be fantastic, as long as producers don’t try to force the contestants toward novelty hits or tired old songs that have been covered on Idol a million times before (and simply happen to qualify under the one-hit wonder header).
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- 4/19/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Did a 2010 memoir expose Dan Marino’s love child secret, long before the ex-Miami Dolphins quarterback fessed up to his affair on Jan. 30?
In the 2010 memoir, “Honeymoon Junkie: Everything but the Girl,” author Shaun C. Hawkins, an alleged ex of Dan Marino’s baby mama Donna Savattere, meets “Darien,” a former CBS employee living a very wealthy life with a small child fathered by a mysterious man. Sound familiar? Sources say the woman in the book is Donna and the mysterious Mr. Big is none other than Dan Marino.
“Darien lived on the Upper West Side and she worked at CBS,” the author recalls after meeting “Darien” in the pages of this now juicy memoir.
Included in our “5 Things To Know About Donna Savattere,” HollywoodLife.com told you that Donna was a production assistant at CBS Sports in Manhattan. When she became pregnant in 2005, Dan paid Donna off and sent...
In the 2010 memoir, “Honeymoon Junkie: Everything but the Girl,” author Shaun C. Hawkins, an alleged ex of Dan Marino’s baby mama Donna Savattere, meets “Darien,” a former CBS employee living a very wealthy life with a small child fathered by a mysterious man. Sound familiar? Sources say the woman in the book is Donna and the mysterious Mr. Big is none other than Dan Marino.
“Darien lived on the Upper West Side and she worked at CBS,” the author recalls after meeting “Darien” in the pages of this now juicy memoir.
Included in our “5 Things To Know About Donna Savattere,” HollywoodLife.com told you that Donna was a production assistant at CBS Sports in Manhattan. When she became pregnant in 2005, Dan paid Donna off and sent...
- 2/1/2013
- by Christopher Rogers
- HollywoodLife
Who but Tracey Thorn (of the beloved UK duo Everything But The Girl) would deliver a first single from her new album that could be sad, observant and yet make you laugh? That's exactly what she does with the song "Oh, The Divorces." Anyone who has reached their 40s and suddenly realized that the wave of weddings they attended in their 20s is now being followed by a wave of separations will smile ruefully at the first lines: "Who's next? Who's next?" Then comes the killer observation of a familiar moment delivered in her trademark voice of quiet compassion: "the afternoon handover by the swings." You're immediately struck by what a commonplace event it is - one ex-spouse passing the kids along to another -- and yet how piercingly sad it is and the fact that Thorn is the first...
- 5/28/2010
- by Michael Giltz
- Huffington Post
Essential Sounds (2010/05/20)
Welcome once again to your fresh supply of all things fantastic. I have, as always, spent the past week looking in every nook and cranny for the best new music the world has to offer just for you. On the menu this week we have a collective mix spanning from the depths of Denmark to the underground dancefloors of New York. So what are you waiting for? Dig in and bon appetite!
1. “Back To The Fuck Yeah” by Pulled Apart By Horses
Hailing from my former stomping ground here in the UK, Pulled Apart By Horses are a fairly fresh faced alt rock group coming straight out of Leeds. Having only been together as a band since 2008 they are still defining their sound but if this number is anything to go by we should be hearing a lot more from them in the near future. There’s a...
Welcome once again to your fresh supply of all things fantastic. I have, as always, spent the past week looking in every nook and cranny for the best new music the world has to offer just for you. On the menu this week we have a collective mix spanning from the depths of Denmark to the underground dancefloors of New York. So what are you waiting for? Dig in and bon appetite!
1. “Back To The Fuck Yeah” by Pulled Apart By Horses
Hailing from my former stomping ground here in the UK, Pulled Apart By Horses are a fairly fresh faced alt rock group coming straight out of Leeds. Having only been together as a band since 2008 they are still defining their sound but if this number is anything to go by we should be hearing a lot more from them in the near future. There’s a...
- 5/20/2010
- by Aaron
This week, the Big Music Machine is raising the musical dead. The Black Keys bring the blues back from the grave one more time, while the Rolling Stones reanimate a rock classic, Tracey Thorn returns from Everything But the Girl purgatory, and Nas & Damian Marley summon the ghosts of their African brothers. Please press play now and thank me later. Vote: When is a band too old to rock? Play: The Rolling Stones, "Exile on Main St." [Reissue] In 1971 the Stones were in self-imposed tax exile in a former Nazi headquarters. Keith Richards was in the grips of a major heroin addiction, Mick Jagger was waiting for his wife to give birth, and the band rarely met at the same time. It was the perfect recipe for a masterpiece recording. "Exile on Main St." is the blueprint for every ragged,...
- 5/18/2010
- by Shawn Amos
- Huffington Post
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