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Everything But the Girl

December 2023

  • Composite: Alexis' Year in Pop 2023. Blur, Taylor Swift, Mitski

    Best music of 2023
    Blank space: how Taylor Swift – and an aching sense of loss – dominated music in 2023

    Away from Swift’s joyous, record-breaking successes, the year’s most acclaimed albums were concerned with death and absence

June 2023

  • From left: Yaeji, Jessie Ware, Lil Yachty, Everything But the Girl, Lankum.

    Best culture of 2023 so far
    The best albums of 2023 so far

    From the unique sonic world of Yaeji to the dark folk music of Lankum, here are our picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year

April 2023

  • Everything But the Girl

    Everything But the Girl: Fuse review – sleek, downtempo charms

    The duo return with their intriguingly individual take on beats and plaintive vocals
  • See saw … Evil Dead Rise.

    Going out, staying in
    From Evil Dead Rise to Everything But the Girl: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    Whether it’s the latest instalment of the splattertastic franchise or the return of some electropop greats, our critics have you covered for the next seven days
  • ‘Never a band minded to abide by anything but a desire to defy categorisation’ … Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Everything But the Girl: Fuse review – still staking out pop’s frontier after 40 years

    Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have absorbed the revolutions in dance and electronic music since their previous album in 1999, and shaped them into melancholic, finely detailed stories

March 2023

  • Everything But the Girl: ‘We had to allow ourselves to fail. It wasn’t like we had a master plan.’

    Everything But the Girl on their unlikely return: ‘This life came into our music. We didn’t have control over it’

    They went from leftist outsiders to huge dance-pop stars, then walked away when stadiums came calling. Back after 24 years, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt explain how lockdowns led to a new album – and why they’ve embraced Auto-Tune

January 2020

  • Observer New Review Tracey Thorn on her new book January 2019

    Books interview
    Tracey Thorn: ‘I went through a phase of carrying Camus under my arm’

    The musician on rereading her teenage diaries and why she’s now a fervent fan of Jack Reacher

March 2018

  • Tracey Thorn.

    Tracey Thorn: Record review – grownup feminist bangers

  • Tracey-Thorn-by-Edward-Bishop-portraitUSE

    Tracey Thorn: Record review – funny, graceful songs of female power

October 2015

  • Tracey Thorn

    30 minutes with …
    Tracey Thorn: ‘My fans are too old for selfies’

    What’s worth more – the Everything But the Girl singer’s autograph … or her socks?

August 2015

  • Everything But The Girl at the Palace, Los Angeles, 1985

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 10 August 1988: Profile - Tracey Thorn, Everything But The Girl

    The Guardian, 10 August 1988: A daughter of punk, Tracey Thorn is riding high in the pop charts, but academia looms just as large in her life

April 2015

  • Tracey Thorn on Top of the Pops in 1988

    Tracey Thorn: ‘When I listen to bands, I only really hear the singer’

  • Tracey Thorn photographed by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review

    Tracey Thorn: ‘I’d kill to be able to sing like Adele’

October 2012

  • Tracey Thorn

    Tracey Thorn: Tinsel and Lights – review

    A Christmas album by Tracey Thorn might once have seemed like a hoax, but the surprise is how well it suits her, writes Alexis Petridis

June 2012

  • Everything But The Girl

    Everything But the Girl: 'You feel like you're listening to a different person'

    Nearly 30 years after their debut album, Everything But the Girl tell Laura Barnett why they've decided to revisit their past

May 2010

  • Tracey Thorn: Love and its Opposite

  • Music blog
    Listen to Tracey Thorn's Love and Its Opposite

April 2010

  • Exclusive music video: Tracey Thorn - Oh, The Divorces

    Everything But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn performs an exclusive track from her third solo album, Love and its Opposite

March 2007

  • Tracey Thorn, Out of the Woods

    (Virgin)

February 2007

  • Tracey Thorn, Out of the Woods

    The first solo set in decades by the Everything But the Girl star may be the pinnacle of her career, believes Paul Flynn.

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