Everything But The Girl are Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, who met as students at the University of Hull in the early 1980s and later moved from jazzy acoustic pop into electronic music. 'Walking Wounded' (1996), the title track of their first album for Virgin, was built with drum'n'bass duo Spring Heel Jack (John Coxon and Ashley Wales). Spring Heel Jack wrote the music and produced it, with Watt's lyric and Thorn's vocal on top, and it became a UK top-ten single. After pausing in 2000 they came back with 'Fuse' (2023), which went to No. 3 in the UK, the highest-charting album of their career. Since 2025 they've been playing small London shows billed as Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn, and in 2026 they launched a deluxe CD reissue series.
From the notes for EKHO Sonic Chill #12 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
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