Everything But The Girl Album Poll

I love her smokey voice.

Her voice has changed, though this is to be expected after such a long time - 24 years since the last album. It sounds deeper (in more ways than one).

sorry i'm this guy-

funny that all it takes is one classic band releasing something new to remind me how shit most other music is.

way too early in the year for such a definitive banger.

kiss me while the world decays.

p sure ben + tracey live on this street

https://i.imgur.com/NOp1ZaQ.jpeg

Wow this sounds great! Her voice has changed slightly - yeah a bit deeper - but I actually think it sounds better.

when her voice first hit, i have to admit i was a taken aback. it's changed a lot, even since record - but that was over 4 years ago (unbelievably!).

but she sounds absolutely beautiful on this. my god.

Perfect return. So classy and understated. Can't wait for the album.

Awesome.

I love it.

wanted to sing "tessio" over this as it played which means it's about as good as music can be

well i can't listening to anything but everything but the girl today

love that charles hayward plays drums on eden

Love the new single, it’s like the pop song each member of The XX has been trying to make for 10 years

I played their Back to Mine mix last night and when Stars All Seem To Weep came on I thought it sounded so much like EBTG, and in particular, Hatfield 1980 and the Temperamental album. I've just gone to look at the details on The Stars All Seem to Weep and it appears Ben Watt is credited with 'Beats', so yeah, explains why it sounds so much like EBTG.

New songs is fantastic, had it on repeat for about half an hour this morning.

This is a nice surprise

it's pretty good but it's funny that it sounds like what they would have made about a decade ago if they'd never gone away

Love it. Tracey’s voice has evolved. I’m not sure I would have recognized her if I just heard the “kiss me while the world decays” bit. We’ve waited 24 years but they could hurry up already with the whole album.

I'm v impressed.

I wasn't familiar with the band at all, but one week was all I needed to listen to Amplified Heart, Eden, Temperamental, and Walking Wounded. Easy quality listening. Now I have the missing link between Bossa Nova and Roisin Murphy. With a little bit of Sade too.

speaking of bossa nova: beautiful mid-90s live version of Corcovado recorded for Red Hot & Rio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA8Pv_gTjLg

approximately 30 seconds into that new single i realised this will win the '23 albums poll, and there's nothing any of us can do about it

(i like it tbf! i wouldn't have said that if i didn't)

(but it does tick every single ILM box in triplicate lol)

Saw the video for the new song. The cynic in me wants to call out EBTG for using these young people in the video, as if to conceal the fact that the artists themselves are in their seventh decade.

Shoot a fan edit and move the setting to a retirement home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEK6U2nRO24

lol are they allowed to be doing this???

LET ME IN

nice

i like it even more than "nothing left to lose" and when it gets to the reprise of "all the stars aligning, shimmering shining" ... okay, yeah. they clearly did.

Not as keen on this one so far but NLTL was great.

And I'm sittin', sittin' at the top of the stairs
And you're cryin' out on the towpath by the river
With all the swans and all the people walking by

And all of a sudden I'm stuck with an urge to unlock a door
With a key that's too big for my hands
And I drop it, and it falls at your feet
Come on, come on, it's there at your feet

and I neeeveeeerrr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo9b4buZCNo

holy shit her deepening voice suits a piano ballad as much as it does the dance tracks.

Wow that’s an awesome tune her new voice is perfect

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/10/everything-but-the-girl-on-their-unlikely-return-this-life-came-into-our-music-we-didnt-have-control-over-it

this is a good read too

On Sunday, the release date of Eden in 1984 will be as close to the end of World War II as it is to the present date.

"Run a Red Light" is fantastic. So from that Guardian article where they talk about using autotune to distort her voice, is that why it sounds so much deeper than it ever has? I don't know if I've ever heard it used to this effect.

her voice has just deepened a lot with age, it was pretty deep on her last solo album too

I was thinking her Christmas album was fairly recent but I just saw it came out a little over a decade ago.

Good interview.

3 for 3

probably gonna be the best album ever

most likely, yeah

If y'all haven't read Thorn's Bedsit Disco Queen, drop everything.

My copy of this came today ^^^.

My Rock'n'Roll Friend, her book on her friendship with Go-Betweens drummer Lindy Morrison, is also worth reading. Guardian review here.

I'm reading Tracey Thorn's autobiography and making my way through the records as I go. I've been a casual fun up until now, with no real sense of the depth of their discography. It's been a trip and I've finally hit my sweet spot around *Baby, the Stars Shine Bright* and *The Language of Life*, both of which I'd not heard before. Both gorgeous records and available for a pittance as well.

I don't know if there is a thread for this, or if it's just me, but I never simply *trust* my taste, or never trust it alone. Maybe that's revealing too much, or, simultaneously overthinking it. Anyway, a bit of context does wonders for me; anchoring the listening in place and time seems to open up the music for me. What a band.

I don't know if that was very well explained. There are people (plenty here, for instance) who seem to know their taste so *well* and don't second-guess it, or doubt it. I admire that kind of certainty, if admire is the right word. Envy, perhaps. I'm sure people will think I'm dubious for even bringing it up.

(a) I appreciate this assumes the existence of taste as an aesthetic marker. But it seems such a given that it might as well be. b) I don't know if any of that needs to be existential but taste is one of those things, for better or worse, that seems so defining of self that see a).)