Released on 6th May 1996, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt’s ninth album as Everything But The Girl imbued their sophisti-pop framework with the pulse of dance music and club culture, threading drum & bass, downtempo and house beats through lyrics wrought with tenderness and yearning. 30 years later, its songs are still as liable to warm up dancefloors as they are to bring a tear to your eye. Here, Daniel Dylan Wray tells its story
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How Everything But The Girl wove lovelorn pop with drum & bass on ‘Walking Wounded’
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Released on 6th May 1996, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt’s ninth album as Everything But The Girl imbued their sophisti-pop framework with the pulse of dance music and club culture, threading drum & bass, downtempo and house beats through lyrics wrought with tenderness and yearning. 30 years later, its songs are still as liable to warm up dancefloors as they are to bring a tear to your eye.
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Released on 6th May 1996, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt’s ninth album as Everything But The Girl imbued their sophisti-pop framework with the pulse of dance music a...
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