Artist
Everything But The Girl is Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, who met as students at Hull University in 1982 and took the name from the slogan of a Hull furniture shop. Walking Wounded (1996) is the record where a folk-leaning duo rebuilt itself around drum and bass, Thorn's voice sitting perfectly still over a beat that never does. It reached No. 4 in the UK. Thorn had already proved she could do that: Massive Attack sent her a cassette of 'Protection' with no title, no melody and no lyrics on it, and she wrote the words in a single sitting. They came back in 2023 with Fuse, their first album in twenty-four years, which entered the UK chart at No. 3. This is the 2015 remaster of the 1996 recording, cut for the deluxe reissue.
From the notes for Episode 06 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
