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Everything But The Girl preview new album with third single "Run A Red Light"

15 March 2023, 11:15 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

Everything But The Girl have released a third preview of their first album in 24 years, Fuse, titled "Run A Red Light".

"Run A Red Light" is teamed with a Charlie Di Placido-directed video, and will appear on the duo's Fuse album with earlier outings "Caution To The Wind" and "Nothing Left To Lose".

Ben Watt says of the new single: "I met a lot of characters during my years in clubland, and I wrote this song about the guy at the end of the night, who dreams his big moment is just around the corner. All the bravado and good intentions masking the vulnerability.

"I used mixed technology in the production to lend character. The piano is a looped iPhone recording; the synth that follows the vocal is a live take on an analog EMS VCS3 which were first made in 1969. Tracey chose to sing super-close to the mic to add intimacy. Some vocals are untreated, some auto-tuned. And then at the end we let the music appear to evaporate. It all just seemed to suit the story."

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.

"Run A Red Light" is out now. Everything But The Girl's Fuse album will be released via Buzzin' Fly Records/Virgin Music Group on 21 April, and is available to pre-order now.

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