Tracey demonstrates a little bit of Girl power
In the spirit of yesterday’s International Women’s Day, former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn has released a new album full of “feminist bangers.”
Thorn’s third album is entitled Record and is first solo album of entirely original material for seven years.
Describing the first track Queen, Tracey says: “It’s a great opener for the album – driven along by Ewan Pearson’s unashamedly glittering electro-pop production, drums and bass from Warpaint’s Stella and Jenny, it features me playing electric guitar for the first time in a while, and singing my heart out.”
Asked to describe Record she said it’s “nine feminist bangers.” Thorn added: “I think I’ve always written songs which chronicle the milestones of a woman’s life.
“Different ages and stages, different realities, not often discussed in pop lyrics. If 2010’s Love and Its Opposite was my mid-life album – full of divorce and hormones – then Record represents that sense of liberation that comes in the aftermath, from embarking on a whole new ‘no f***s given’ phase of life.”
On Record, the synth-driven tracks arrive and leave with a punchy sub-threeminute directness. “I wanted it to be a record you’d listen to in the daytime,” Tracey says.
“On your headphones or on the move. Not necessarily in the evening, or in your bedroom.”
For all its no-fuss pop brevity, the album rotates around Sister, a dubby nine-minute Compass Point-style disco jam where Tracey is joined again by Warpaint’s rhythm section and glorious backing vocals from Corinne Bailey Rae.
Across four decades Tracey’s songs and writing have offered up a cleareyed woman’s view of the immediate world around her; from the acerbic teen love songs of her first earlyeighties band Marine Girls, through 16 years as one half of articulate multimillion-selling duo Everything But
The Girl to her recent acclaimed memoirs and journalism.on Record, the synth-driven tracks arrive and leave with a punchy sub-three-minute directness. “I wanted it to be a record you’d listen to in the daytime,” Tracey says.
“On your headphones or on the move. Not necessarily in the evening, or in your bedroom.”
For all its no-fuss pop brevity, the album rotates around Sister, a dubby nine-minute Compass Point-style disco jam where Tracey is joined again by Warpaint’s rhythm section and glorious backing vocals from Corinne Bailey Rae.
Across four decades Tracey’s songs and writing have offered up a cleareyed woman’s view of the immediate world around her; from the acerbic teen love songs of her first earlyeighties band Marine Girls, through 16 years as one half of articulate multimillion-selling duo Everything But The Girl to her recent acclaimed memoirs and journalism.on Record, the synthdriven tracks arrive and leave with a punchy subthree-minute directness. “I wanted it to be a record you’d listen to in the daytime,” Tracey says.
“On your headphones or on the move. Not necessarily in the evening, or in your bedroom.”
For all its no-fuss pop brevity, the album rotates around Sister, a dubby nine-minute Compass Point-style disco jam where Tracey is joined again by Warpaint’s rhythm section and glorious backing vocals from Corinne Bailey Rae.
Across four decades Tracey’s songs and writing have offered up a cleareyed woman’s view of the immediate world around her; from the acerbic teen love songs of her first earlyeighties band Marine Girls, through 16 years as one half of articulate multimillion-selling duo Everything But
The Girl to her recent acclaimed memoirs and journalism.