[2023-04-21] Everything But The Girl "Fuse" including Amazon exclusive edition (Verve)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2023 9:40 pm

CD/Blu-ray Deluxe Edition (USA)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQSHS45W/?tag=imwan-20

CD Standard Edition (USA)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNSR59JC/?tag=imwan-20

CD Autographed Edition (Amazon UK Exclusive)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BS6TPRBV/?tag=imwan-21

Description
Fuse is the first new studio album from Everything But The Girl in 24 years. Written and produced by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn over the spring-summer of 2021, Fuse is a modern take on the lustrous electronic soul the band first pioneered in the mid-90s. Thorn's affecting and richly-textured voice is once again up front in Watt's glimmering landscape of sub-bass, sharp beats, half-lit synths and empty space, and as before, the result is the sound of a band comfortable with being both sonically contemporary, yet agelessly themselves.

The pair recorded in secret at home and in a small riverside studio outside Bath with friend and engineer Bruno Ellingham. Early takes focused on ambient sound montages and improvised spectral piano loops recorded by Ben on his iPhone at home during his enforced pandemic isolation - ideas which later blossomed into atmospheric tracks such as "When You Mess Up" and "Interior Space". Yet, as confidence grew, so did the pulse and rhythm of the album, culminating in the writing and programming of later songs, such as the new single "Nothing Left To Lose" and "Caution To The Wind". Shot through with alternating hope, desperation and vivid flashbacks, the album's lyrics - sometimes allusive, sometimes richly detailed - capture what it's like to start again.

CD/Blu-ray Audio set is a 6-panel Digipak with booklet; additional bonus Blu-ray of album Atmos mixes (same tracklist).

Tracklist
1. Nothing Left To Lose
2. Run A Red Light
3. Caution To The Wind
4. When You Mess Up
5. Time And Time Again
6. No One Knows We’re Dancing
7. Lost
8. Forever
9. Interior Space
10. Karaoke

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:47 pm

Both of the pre-order links in the first post are now active. (I wish every new album was released with a CD/Blu-ray option for surround lovers. Kudos to EBTG for doing this!)

Here's a promo video for the first single, "Nothing Left To Lose":

RackleNut · **Joined:** 07 Nov 2006 **Posts:** 1356

i quite enjoy the single, more than from their last album at the turn of the century (i just wanted slip that in there).
but the artwork? please, for the love of all that is holy, let that NOT be the artwork – nearly a quarter of a century to get THAT?

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:41 pm

Amazon UK has announced the availablity of an exclusive autographed version of the CD edition:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BS6TPRBV/?tag=imwan-21

[2023-04-21] Everything But The Girl "Fuse" including Amazon exclusive edition (Verve)

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