REVIEW: Everything But the Girl is back with one of the year's most surprising – and welcome – comebacks.
Fuse, which topped off the amazing Nineties trilogy they began with. But Everything But The Girl hit home with their trademark style of ghostly electro-pop, with Thorn’s melancholy voice floating through the glitchy beats.
Nobody expected a return like this—but then, nobody’s ever really known what to expect from this duo. It was a surprise when these indie kids got famous in the Eighties; it was a surprise when they got drastically more brilliant in the Nineties; it was a surprise when they stopped in the 2000s. They’ve spent their whole career defying expectations. is how strong the songs are, facing up to adult angst and modern dread.
Everything But The Girl started out as a moody indie-pop duo, with a taste for cocktail-lounge jazz and bossa nova. Thorn and Watt, a couple since they met at school in 1982, were simpatico musical partners. Before that, she’d already been in the influential postpunk group, the Marine Girls. But they had their creative breakthrough in the 1990s, after, an acoustic folk-soul cult fave. Then things got weird: “Missing” blew up into a freak pop hit, in a dance remix by Todd Terry.
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