Everything But The Girl Announce First Studio Album In Over 24 Years 'Fuse', Share New Track
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Edward Bishop
Everything But The Girl have announced their first LP in more than 24 years.
News of the 10-track 'Fuse' comes alongside the release of a new single called Nothing Left To Lose, a pulsing, soulful electronica track. Head below for the accompanying video, directed by Charlie Di Placido.
The follow-up to 1999's 'Temperamental' was mostly recorded in secret by the husband and wife duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, at their home during the spring and summer of 2021. Additional sessions took place in a studio near Bath with engineer Bruno Ellingham. Speaking about their return, 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."
"It was exciting. A natural dynamism developed," added Watt. "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."
"After so much time apart professionally, there was both a friction and a natural spark in the studio when we began," said Thorn. "However much we underplayed it at the start, it was like a fuse had been lit. And it ended in a kind of coalescence, an emotional fusion. It felt very real and alive."
'Fuse' will arrive on April 21 via Buzzin' Fly Records through Virgin Music Group, except in North America, where it'll drop on Buzzin' Fly Records through Verve.
'Fuse' tracklist:
1. Nothing Left to Lose
2. Run a Red Light
3. Caution to the Wind
4. When You Mess Up
5. Time and Time Again
6. No One Knows We’re Dancing
7. Lost
8. Forever
9. Interior Space
10. Karaoke
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