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March 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Tracey Thorn: Record
Tracey Thorn Record Merge Records Nearly 40 years into her career now Tracey Thorn is making her best music with each new release. The last half-decade or so has seen a handful of brilliant solo efforts – with a career-sampler hits package worth checking and just before that a wonderful slim-volume soundtrack that was the […]Archive
July 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Tracey Thorn: Solo – Songs and Collaborations: 1982-2015
Tracey Thorn Solo: Songs and Collaborations – 1982-2015 Caroline That this doesn’t have, um, Everything FROM The Girl speaks more to the sheer amount of quality material rather than any failings of this compilation. Here Tracey Thorn’s sporadic solo career – and her guest spots and collaborations – are combined across a double disc. When […]Archive
September 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Pixx: Fall In (ep)
Pixx Fall In (ep) 4AD It’s always a joy to hear something small, perfectly formed – particularly when it’s this fresh. The This is Pixx’s Fall In EP. She’s 19, newly signed to 4AD and in the opening, title track she appears to have made the perfect merger of Everything But The Girl and The […]Archive
June 17, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Tracey Thorn: Songs From ‘The Falling’
Tracey Thorn Songs From ‘The Falling’ Strange Feeling Records I’ve yet to see the film but no matter, for this is not your conventional movie soundtrack. It works as standalone, as ‘new album by Tracey Thorn’, for the clue is there in the title, these are just the ‘songs’ from that movie The Falling; no […]Archive
June 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Ben Watt: Hendra
Ben Watt Hendra Caroline International S&D For his first singer/songwriter solo album in over 30 years, Ben Watt’s Hendra has more in common with his revealing, well-written books (both Patient and Romany and Tom) than anything from his canon as remixer/DJ and as one half of Everything But The Girl. Because of his gifts as […]Archive
March 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1404
Tracey Thorn, A Distant Shore (1982) I bought this a few years ago because I was a bit intrigued by it – which is to say I didn’t know it existed; I’ve warmed to Everything But The Girl with time, I wasn’t a fan immediately, I find myself more interested in the music these days. […]Archive
January 30, 2012 by Simon Sweetman