Product 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'.

Track Listing

1. Here It Comes Again
2. A-Z
3. It's All True
4. Get Around 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: #5979 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-05
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Out Of The Woods is the first solo album from Tracey Thorn for over two decades. The Great 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

Customer Reviews

Great Album
Well all I would say is that this is a great album. i truly loved every single track. its been so many days that it is still on my ipod on play/repeat process.

A great solo effort
I bought this album on the back of hearing the excellent 'It's all true'- track 3 on the album. That track is a smooth, electronica tune, quite reminiscent of EBTG of old. Elsewhere, the album is mostly a far more sombre and chilled-out affair, save for a quite deep-housey track, 'Grand Canyon' (track 9, also a great tune, I haven't checked but it sounds suspiciously Ben Watts-produced). This is a good thing however. If you're considering this album in the first place you will already be well-aware of Thorn's intoxicating vocals and she has truly surpassed herself with this effort. All the tracks on here are at least pretty good, most are very good. Thought-provoking and reflective lyrics are the order of the day, and when you've finished listening through it (it only takes 45 mins) you get the feeling that you've really listened to something quite exceptional. The stand-out tracks for me are 'Grand Canyon' and the track that immidiatley follows it, 'By Piccadily station I sat down and wept'- 2 hugely contrasting tunes that demonstrate the depth of this album and Thorn's unquestionale talent. I'm sure some of you would agree with me that all too many reviewers seem keen to dish out 5*'s for music that ends up as more like a 3*. This is a genuine 5* album and one of the best CD's i've heard so far this year.

SHE HAS ALWAYS HAD THE MAGIC !
TRACEY THORN,is the singer of the eighties that has the enchantment and adn to conquer your heart as she opens her mouth and sings her songs.Her style stays as time goes by but she always adequates her voice at present time and always doing her best! TRACEY THORN has always deserved a big hand in whatever she has done throughout all the years of her career, modelling the folk, bossanova,drum & bass and another styles. Now with her recent sonic sphere she gives to all of us a time to remember all those good years of her fabulous vocal art.Just admirable and deepest in great form for this millenium!Stay happy listening to all of the tracks included here in Out Of The Woods and I point: Grand Canyon,Get around To It,Here It Comes Again,ItÂ's All True...Returning after 25 years with a stellar solo album it only means how good she is. IÂ've been listening to her with the MARINE GIRLS and even with EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL and following her charisna and art and not only because I conduct and produce some radio shows in Peru but
because of THE GIRL ! She sings like no other before and has a style that itÂ's very difficult to get easily. Stay tuned in!
HELENE RAMOS GALAGARZA
peruvian radio producer & host