Track Listing

1. Here It Comes Again
2. A-Z
3. It's All True
4. Get Arond To It
5. Hands Up To The Ceiling
6. Easy
7. Falling Off A Log
8. Nowhere Near
9. Grand Canyon
10. By Piccadilly Station I Sat Down And Wept
11. Raise The Roof

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5587 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-20
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.co.uk
Out of the Woods is the first solo album from Tracey Thorn for over two decades. The British public probably know Thorn best as the voice of Everything but the Girl's "Missing," the Todd Terry mix of which hit No. 3 in 1994 and hung around in the Billboard Top 100 for over a year. That huge hit, however, is somewhat deceptive in the context of Thorne and her partner Ben Watt's 25-year career. Out of the Woods, like much Everything but the Girl before it, is a set of torch songs versed in the production techniques of clubland, but shot through with a melancholy soul more familiar to jazz or folk-rock--or, indeed, cosmic disco pioneer Arthur Russell, whose "Get Around to It" Thorne covers here, and all but makes it her own. Lyrically, events hint at a certain domesticity: "Nowhere Near" is a delicate song about motherhood sung over shimmering synths, piano, and pipes, while "Hands Up to the Ceiling" seems to be about finding sanctuary in a record collection, Thorne sneaking to an attic to spin "Siouxsie Sioux, and Edwin too/Bobby D, in '63." Those eager for Thorn to reprise "Missing," however, maybe be satisfied by "Grand Canyon" and the closing "Raise the Roof," two potential club hits in the waiting. --Louis Pattison

Album Description
First solo album in 25 years from the female half of Everything But The Girl (her first solo album, A Distant Shore, was recorded just prior to the formation of EBTG in 1982). On this album, Thorn collaborates with Tom Gandey (AKA Cagedbaby) and Ewan Pearson amongst others. Features the first single 'It's All True'. Virgin. 2007.

Album Details
2007 Solo Disc from the Everything but the Girl Vocalist. Includes her Cover of the Pet Shop Boys "Kings Cross".

Customer Reviews

"Please ma'am, I want some more"
Tracy Thorn, the haunting voice of Everything But the Girl, delivers a nice variety of soulful ballad and inspiring dance music on her first solo album. I am more a fan of the group's acoustic offerings myself, but their version of techno (is that still even the term?) is leagues above standard club fare. "Easy" and "Grand Canyon" are standouts in that category. The wonderful climax of the second, in which she encourages a lost soul to claim his true self, urges, "This is the price for you, just look around this room: Is anybody here made out of stone? Down among the heretics, the losers and the saints, you are here among your own--you've come home, you've come home." Given the pained experience that informs most of these songs, her repeats of "You've come home" and "Everybody loves you here" ring as powerful words of welcome from someone who knows what it is to be painfully excluded as "other." Here she shares her experience as one who has come "through the woods" and encourages another to claim that self without apology, leave behind those who don't understand, and claim the motley crew that gets him.
My very favorite song on the album is the poignant and all too brief, "By Picadilly Station I Sat Down and wept." There is not a wasted word in the song, and the unresolved chord on which it ends coincides perfectly with the terrible loss in its words, "the air just seems to shiver and you're never seen again; never seen again." The understated lyrics and delivery are perfect for what could otherwise be a worn-out theme. As we all know, the emotions that come with loss are raw, despite the cliche of their typical expressions in song, and Thorn is a master at evoking them so that they feel as fresh and personal as the lived experience.

Very nice electronic return
Well, after many years waiting for new music of EVBG, the alone return of Tracy Thorn to the electronic music is a very nice sorprise. Good lyrics and a fresh and modern music are a good CD to play again and again. Enjoy it!

Welcome back Tracey!
After 5 years I thought Tracey had retired but it turns out she has been busy. I can understand reviewers who said it sounds nothing like the old Tracey. This is her debut solo album and while reminiscent of the best of Everything But the Girl she now has a distict confident and masterful new sound all her own that is, in my opionion, outstanding!! She also has some of the best producers(Ewan Pearson, Charles Webster...) around adding their own style to the mixes.
My favorites are "Its All True" and "Easy" easily the records highlights.
Highly recommend