Tracey Thorn

About the artist

Backtracking, it is hard to find a decade recently where Tracey Thorn’s voice and songwriting has not been influential. Fresh out of school in the UK in the early 1980s, she formed the cult girl band Marine Girls, whose two-album career of edgy teen love songs has influenced lo-fi indie bands ever since.

Among noted Marine Girls fans you’ll find Kurt Cobain (Nirvana was reportedly rehearsing “In Love” before Cobain’s death). In 1982, Tracey followed it with her own eight-song mini-classic, A Distant Shore, which catapulted her to the top of the UK indie charts. Throughout the 1980s, she shared writing with partner Ben Watt in the British duo Everything But The Girl (EBTG). In the ’90s, she co-wrote EBTG’s global smash “Missing” before delivering lyrics, melody, and vocals for one of the decade’s seminal ballads, Massive Attack’s “Protection,” and contributing centrally to EBTG’s best-selling electronica crossover albums Walking Wounded and Temperamental. After a self-imposed hiatus to start a family, she returned in 2007 with the glittering folk-disco of Out of the Woods, the starkly beautiful Love and Its Opposite in 2010, and her 2012 alternative holiday album, Tinsel and Lights.

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	Top songs	Album
1	Protection	Like The Deserts Miss The Rain	7:48	1
2	Dancefloor	Record	2:56	1
3	Sister	Record	8:32	1
4	Joy	Tinsel and Lights	4:00	1
5	Queen	Queen	4:17	1
6	It's All True	Out Of The Woods	4:13	1
7	In the Cold, Cold Night	Tinsel and Lights	2:38	1
8	Why Does the Wind?	Love and Its Opposite	5:00	1
9	Sister (Andrew Weatherall Remix)	Sister	9:34	1
10	Easy	Out Of The Woods	3:58	1

Albums

Tracey Thorn

Record is the fifth studio album by English singer and songwriter Tracey Thorn. It was recorded by Thorn with producer Ewan Pearson and a number of backing musicians, including singers Shura and Corinne Bailey Rae, drummer Stella Mozgawa, bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg, and guitarist Jono Ma. The album released by Merge Records on 2 March 2018 to mostly positive reviews from critics.

Tracey Thorn

Tinsel and Lights is a Christmas album by British singer Tracey Thorn. The album was released on 29 October 2012 on Buzzin' Fly Records. The album is her fourth solo album.
The album mostly avoids canonical Christmas songs but instead features covers of songs by Sufjan Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Ron Sexsmith and The White Stripes as well as self-penned songs. Scritti Politti's Green Gartside features on a cover of Low's "Taking Down the Tree", as well as writing "Snow in Sun". Ben Watt, who is Thorn's husband and partner in Everything But The Girl, plays on most tracks, and their three children provide backing vocals on the track "Joy".

Tracey Thorn

Love and Its Opposite is the third solo album by former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn, released on 17 May 2010. The album was released on Thorn's husband Ben Watt's label Strange Feeling in the UK, and on Merge Records in North America. It was produced by Ewan Pearson, who also produced tracks on Thorn's previous album Out of the Woods. The album peaked at number 51 in the UK Albums Chart.

Tracey Thorn

Out of the Woods is the second solo album from Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn – her first since 1982's A Distant Shore, released on 5 March 2007 on Virgin Records. The album charted on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 172 on 7 April 2007.
The majority of the album's production was by Ewan Pearson who also produced the first single, "It's All True". Other collaborators included Cagedbaby, Charles Webster, Klas Lindblad, Martin Wheeler and Alex Santos.

Tracey Thorn

A Distant Shore is the first studio album by Tracey Thorn, released via Cherry Red Records in 1982. It includes a cover version of The Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale".
Recorded for just £138, the album reached number 1 in the UK Indie Chart in 1983. In 2010, it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 100,000 copies throughout Europe.

Tracey Thorn

Solo: Songs and Collaborations 1982–2015 is a compilation album by Tracey Thorn, released in the UK on 23 October 2015. It features 34 tracks spanning her career as a solo artist and includes collaborations with other artists, including The Unbending Trees, Massive Attack and The Style Council. Further collaborations include tracks with Robert Wyatt and Hot Chip. The tracks are arranged over two discs. It is also available as a digital album, and as a shortened single-disc compilation.

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