Everything But the Girl - Eden (2026 Deluxe Edition) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

First released in June 1994, Amplified Heart is the seventh studio album from Everything But the Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singer-writer-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 31-track deluxe CD reissue edition featuring additional B-sides and extra tracks.Amplified Heart went on to sell over a million copies and was acclaimed on it's for it's candour and affecting intimacy (InchThe results are, to a song, high qualityInch MOJO; InchCaptures expertly the fragmentary confusing nature of emotional ructionInch INDEPENDENT; InchTheir newest album, and possibly their bestInch NEW YORK TIMES). It also contains the original version of what was to become the band's biggest hit, Missing. If Todd Terry's famous house remix took Missing onto the world's dance floors and global pop charts in 1995 (#2 on US Billboard Hot 100; #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay; #3 on the UK Top 40; #1 in Canada, Germany and Italy), the original version also remains a timeless classic and one that perhaps better reflects the enduring appeal of the album's modern-retro hybrid of ardent folk-soul and scratchy electronica.The genesis of Amplified Heart was anything but easy. Written in the aftermath of Watt's harrowing near-death experience in 1992 from a rare auto-immune disease, the lyrics - written alternately by the duo - are raw unflinching stories of love and isolation in extremity.To anchor the album's heart, the pair turned in part to folk-rock legends Danny Thompson (double bass), Dave Mattacks (drums), and engineer Jerry Boys (Sandy Denny, REM), but also to electronic producer, John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized) to find the loops and dusty sounds that give the record much of it's underlying atmosphere. There are cameo roles from Richard Thompson on electric guitar (25th December) and veteran string arranger Harry Robinson (I Don't Unders

First released in 1999, Temperamental is the ninth studio album from Everything But the Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singer-writer-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 23-track deluxe CD reissue edition featuring additional remixes and extra tracks.Often seen as a companion piece to it's million-selling predecessor Walking Wounded, the album went on to sell over 500,000 copies worldwide, including the Billboard Dance Chart #1 single, Five Fathoms, and further cemented the duo's reputation for skilfully fusing the worlds of modern electronica and ardent pop songwriting.The album was recorded in north London at the duo's home studio in the summer of 1998 with two tracks ending up as production collaborations Blame, made with drum 'n' bass DJ-producer Jamie Spratling (J Majik) at his studio in Hertfordshire; and The Future of the Future, which began life as an instrumental by Washington DC deep house producers, Deep Dish before Watt wrote a melody and lyrics for Thorn to sing.Yet it was not without it's complications. After the birth of the pair's twins in early 1998, Thorn chose to focus much of her time on family life. Watt produced a lot of the album's music, and the pair could often only get together at night when the house was quiet to work on vocals and arrangements. If the music is inspired by clubland, the lyrics capture the tension and complexities of competing interior and exterior worlds, of lives lived both inside and outside.The album was acclaimed in many quarters. 'Triumphant after-hours club pop' said Spin in a full-page 9/10 lead review. 'Wide-eyed and wondrous,' commented Time Out. And in a 2019 retrospective feature, The Quietus concluded 'Temperamental may be the most emotionally complex dance long-player of all time'.Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, the album features the original artwork by

Vinyl LP pressing. Originally released on 4 June 1984 on Blanco y Negro Records, Eden was British duo Everything But the Girl's debut studio album, produced by Robin Millar (Sade, Fine Young Cannibals). This reissue, now coming out on the bands own Buzzin' Fly tag, has been remastered and cut at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road. The album contains the single InchEach and Every OneInch, which peaked at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. The cover design was created by lead singer Tracey Thorn's former bandmate in the Marine Girls, Jane Fox.