Estelle Clifford: Music - Everything but the Girl, 'Fuse'

<p>After 24 years, the electronic pop duo returns with a moving, handsome album that tells a sophisticated story about recapturing innocence.<span> </span></p> <p><span>The band called it quits and dedicated themselves to home life, raising three kids. Watt founded the dance label Buzzin’ Fly and released solo music; Thorn also made albums and wrote several brilliant books on her life in music and its inspirations. While they offered each other practical creative assistance, their core collaboration was over. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Curiously, it returned during another period of alienation. After the pair lived through an extreme version of the pandemic that required them to stringently self-isolate owing to Watt’s illness, Thorn proposed a reboot of EBTG, worried that they might one day realize they had left it too late. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Once she persuaded Watt, they approached the project so tentatively that they hastened to call it EBTG, crediting the song files to TREN—Tracey and Ben. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>They announced the finished album in similarly low-key fashion: “Just thought you’d like to know that Ben and I have made a new Everything But the Girl album,” Thorn </span><a href="https://twitter.com/tracey_thorn/status/1587852058115309571"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">tweeted</span></a><span>. “It’ll be out next spring.” She went out for dinner and returned to thousands of retweets.</span><span> </span></p> <p><strong>LISTEN ABOVE</strong></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> </span></p> <p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>