Tracey Thorn
Everything But the Girl: Fuse review – sleek, downtempo charms
The duo return with their intriguingly individual take on beats and plaintive vocals
Kitty Empire
23, Apr, 2023 @8:00 AM
Everything But the Girl on their unlikely return: ‘This life came into our music. We didn’t have control over it’
They went from leftist outsiders to huge dance-pop stars, then walked away when stadiums came calling. Back after 24 years, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt explain how lockdowns led to a new album – and why they’ve embraced Auto-Tune
Alexis Petridis
10, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM
The best new music to look forward to in 2023
Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican
Alexis Petridis and Andrew Clements
29, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM
The 20 greatest Christmas albums – ranked!
Whether you fancy a heartwarming carol with Elvis or the story of a yuletide drug dealer from OutKast, there’s a festive album for you in our rundown of the best ever
Alexis Petridis
15, Dec, 2022 @1:52 PM
‘The ground is unstable but there are pleasures all around’ – goodbye to the joy of small things
For three years, this column has been looking for sources of quotidian joy in the darkness. As it comes to an end, what tiny delights would other writers nominate?
Hannah Jane Parkinson, Philip Pullman, Yomi Adegoke, Tracey Thorn Phil Wang
17, Sep, 2021 @7:00 AM
Tracey Thorn: 'I managed 10% of War and Peace during lockdown'
The singer, songwriter and author on struggling with Tolstoy, learning from Billie Holiday, and the book to give fans of Joy Division
Tracey Thorn
02, Apr, 2021 @9:00 AM
My Rock'n'Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn review – a story of sexism in pop
A vivid and witty memoir of the friendship between Thorn and Lindy Morrison of the Go-Betweens, two women in a cultural world dominated by men
Fiona Sturges
25, Mar, 2021 @9:00 AM
Tracey Thorn: ‘I went through a phase of carrying Camus under my arm’
The musician on rereading her teenage diaries and why she’s now a fervent fan of Jack Reacher
Jude Rogers
25, Jan, 2020 @6:00 PM
The 50 greatest Christmas songs – ranked!
From John Fahey, the Sonics and the Waitresses to Slade, Wizzard and Mariah Carey, we count down the best festive numbers
Michael Hann
05, Dec, 2019 @12:00 PM
Tracey Thorn on Brookmans Park: ‘As a teenager this slice of suburban heaven felt like hell'
The singer-songwriter and author on growing up in ‘a village that wasn’t a village’, discovering punk and wanting to escape
Tracey Thorn
16, Feb, 2019 @11:59 AM
Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn – review
Snogs at discos and Saturday shopping ... the Everything But the Girl frontwoman looks back on humdrum days in the spiritual home of English pop
Joe Moran
02, Feb, 2019 @10:00 AM
Tracey Thorn: ‘Not everything you do is cool’
Everything But the Girl’s Tracey Thorn on performing, her parents and her second memoir, Another Planet
Interview by Tim Lewis
27, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM
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