Everything But The Girl have announced details of their first album in 24 years, entitled Fuse.
The ten track album will be released on 21 April on Buzzin’ Fly Records through the Virgin Media Group.
Speaking about the album, singer Tracey Thorn said:
‘Ironically the finished sound of the new album was the last thing on our mind when we started in March 2021. 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‘.’
Ben Watt added: ‘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. It just became Everything But The Girl on its own’.
The album tracklisting is as follows:
- Nothing Left To Lose
- Run A Red Light
- Caution To The Wind
- When You Mess Up
- Time And Time Again
- No One Knows We’re Dancing
- Lost
- Forever
- Interior Space
- Karaoke
The first single to be released from the album is the opener ‘Nothing Left To Lose.’ The video was directed by Charlie Di Placido.
Since the group’s last performance in 2000, they have worked on a number of projects. Tracey Thorn released four solo albums, a movie soundtrack for Carol Morley‘s The Falling, four non-fiction books and wrote extensively for The New Statesman. Ben Watt became an international DJ and remixer, and ran his electronic label Buzzin’ Fly for ten years before returning to his singer-songwriter roots with a trilogy of solo albums from 2014-2020. The group’s last live performance was at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2000; they have not indicated whether there will be any live dates to support the new
Credit – Edward Bisho
