Raising three children kept Tracey Thorn all but completely away from music for several years. Apart from appearing on Tiefschwarz's "Damage," she was completely absent since 1999, while husband and Everything But the Girl partner Ben Watt continued DJing and operating his Buzzin' Fly label. Thorn even thought it possible at one point that she might not record again, but she has returned with help from several collaborators to make her second solo album, released 25 years after her first. Despite the changes in her life, as well as the varied backgrounds of the producers, Out of the Woods is not the least bit out of character. It is a mellow, melodic album that switches between stripped-down, folk-inspired material, downtempo pop, and up-to-date productions designed for both home and club listening. Thorn has returned as if she never went away, sounding completely at ease without Watt. She's still, for the most part, singing about love; "A-Z," in which a young outsider, fed up with being beaten and teased, leaves her small town for the city, is the only instance where parenthood might have had an effect on her songwriting. The timely production touches are a more than adequate fit for Thorn's subdued but emotive vocals, just as effective as the drum'n'bass elements on EBTG's last two albums. "It's All True," produced by Ewan Pearson with Darshan Jesrani and Klas Lindblad, is the prime highlight -- bounding synth stabs, sweetened strings, percolating percussion accents, and the kind of near-ecstatic vocal turn that only Thorn could deliver -- utilizing a modernized mutation of the post-disco/pre-house oogie era (as exemplified by Jesrani and Morgan Geist's Metro Area). While the beginning-to-end level of quality is expected from Thorn, it's remarkable that the album comes after such an extended absence. And, despite the number of idiosyncratic collaborators -- all of whom established themselves after Temperamental -- it achieves cohesion and sounds exactly like a Tracey Thorn album.
TRACEY THORN – OUT OF THE WOODS (2007)RATING“Out Of The Woods” is the first solo release by the sultry Indie songbird in 25 years. Much has happened in-between, from the early 80s lounge jazz inflected Folk of early Everything But The Girl albums, to a 90s commercial resurrection in the Dance Pop charts, Thorn has little to prove. So whilst the kids are at school, and long term EBTG partner
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I just got back from a business trip last night only to be confronted by jetlag, lack of sleep and time zone changes plus a full day at the office so I have yet to pick up Tracey Thorn's new album. Its the middle of the night and I'm wide awake - too bad Aoemba isn't open 24 hours.
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I can't stop listening to Tracey Thorn's new album! The first track got to me right away - Here It Comes Again. The first track reminded me of Nico's Chelsea Girls album. I also felt it sounded like something Dusty Springfield would record. I love it!!!!! The other tracks on the album have different feels to them (two sound like 80s Scritti Politti, others sound like what you would hear on the ...
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Can it be true?!Tracey Thorn has released a new album???Must investigate....Will report back in another post....
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TRACEY THORN – OUT OF THE WOODS (2007)RATING“Out Of The Woods” is the first solo release by the sultry Indie songbird in 25 years. Much has happened in-between, from the early 80s lounge jazz inflected Folk of early Everything But The Girl albums, to a 90s commercial resurrection in the Dance Pop charts, Thorn has little to prove. So whilst the kids are at school, and long term EBTG partner
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I just got back from a business trip last night only to be confronted by jetlag, lack of sleep and time zone changes plus a full day at the office so I have yet to pick up Tracey Thorn's new album. Its the middle of the night and I'm wide awake - too bad Aoemba isn't open 24 hours.
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Can it be true?!Tracey Thorn has released a new album???Must investigate....Will report back in another post....
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Some days you just can't express your sentiments correctly and then you hear a song that says it exactly!That's what this track was able to do for me one day last week and continues to hold true today.Now, if I only had a baseball bat or a 2x4 to go with it, I might get it to sink in!Lyrics:Boy I think you've come home Open up the door and step inside So many people who feel the way you do Thei...
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listening to Tracey Thorn, I realized that she sounded a bit like Annie Lennox, which is such an utter compliment because she sounds much more refined. I am sure you remember her from Everything but the girl. You know the hit track, Missing? (...and I miss you like the deserts miss the rain...and I miss you...[lalala}. She and Ben did some housey stuff when that was cool, like club mixes..Oh...
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I can't stop listening to Tracey Thorn's new album! The first track got to me right away - Here It Comes Again. The first track reminded me of Nico's Chelsea Girls album. I also felt it sounded like something Dusty Springfield would record. I love it!!!!! The other tracks on the album have different feels to them (two sound like 80s Scritti Politti, others sound like what you would hear on the ...
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Hooray for Tracey Thorn! Remember the track Missing by Everything But The Girl? I certainly do! Tracey was the lead singer of the Ben Watt-produced hit that travelled around the world.Last year, Tracey returned to the scene with a brand new solo album called Out of The Woods. Today i'm sharing a remix of a single off that album, called Grand Canyon. The remix was produce by Dirty South who m...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Here It Comes Again |
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| 2 A-Z |
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| 3 It's All True |
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| 4 Get Around to It |
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| 5 Hands Up to the Ceiling |
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| 6 Easy |
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| 7 Falling Off a Log |
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| 8 Nowhere Near |
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| 9 Grand Canyon |
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| 10 By Piccadilly Station I Sat Down and Wept |
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| 11 Raise the Roof |
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