Everything But The Girl announce first album in 24 years with lead single "Nothing Left To Lose"

After confirming in November last year that a new Everything But The Girl album would be arriving in 2023, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have unveiled "Nothing Left To Lose", the first outing from their upcoming full-length. The new track is accompanied by a Charlie Di Placido-directed video.

Fuse will be EBTG's first new album since 1999's Temperamental, and was written and produced by Thorn and Watt in spring/summer 2021. The duo recorded the album in secret at home and in a small riverside studio outside Bath with engineer Bruno Ellingham.

Thorn says, "Ironically the finished sound of the new album was the last thing on our mind when we started in March 2021. Of course, we were aware of the pressures of such a long-awaited comeback, so we tried to begin instead in a spirit of open-minded playfulness, uncertain of the direction, receptive to invention."

"It was exciting," Watt explains. "A natural dynamism developed. We spoke in short-hand, and little looks, and co-wrote instinctively. It became more than the sum of our two selves. It just became Everything But The Girl on its own."

Thorn adds of the album title, "After so much time apart professionally, there was both a friction and a natural spark in the studio when we began. However much we underplayed it at the start, it was like a fuse had been lit. And it ended in a kind of coalescence, an emotional fusion. It felt very real and alive."

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