EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL reveal new track ‘Caution To The Wind’ from upcoming album ‘Fuse’

Everything But The Girl
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Everything But The Girl have today revealed their new track “Caution To The Wind” and its accompanying lyric video.

The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album ‘Fuse’ out 21 April and is the follow up to recent single “Nothing Left To Lose” which has seen fantastic support across press, with NME calling it ‘a massive dance single’, radio (A-list rotation at BBC Radio 6 Music) and editorial playlists (New Music Friday, All New Indie, The Other List, Loops). The track has topped 1 million streams on Spotify, and the video has been watched over 1 million times on YouTube.

Of the new track, Tracey says: “Lyrically, “Caution To The Wind: is a simple song about arrival and seizing the moment, so with the music we tried to capture the feeling of a perpetual point in time.”

“I let the words quickly collapse and loop inside the production,” continues Ben. “The drums emerge and repeat, and everything then starts to unfold in cycles of anticipation and release. I guess it’s just classic nightclub tension and euphoria.”

Check out ‘Caution To The Wind’ – BELOW:

Written and produced by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn over the spring-summer of 2021, Everything But The Girl’s new album ‘Fuse’ is a modern take on the lustrous electronic soul the band first pioneered in the mid-90s. Thorn’s affecting and richly-textured voice is once again up front in Watt’s glimmering landscape of sub-bass, sharp beats, half-lit synths and empty space, and as before, the result is the sound of a band comfortable with being both sonically contemporary, yet agelessly themselves.

The pair recorded in secret at home and in a small riverside studio outside Bath with friend and engineer Bruno Ellingham. For the first two months, the artist name on the album files was simply TREN (Tracey and Ben), and early takes focussed on ambient sound montages and improvised spectral piano loops recorded by Ben on his iPhone at home during his enforced pandemic isolation – ideas which later blossomed into atmospheric tracks such as “When You Mess Up” and “Interior Space”.

Everything But The Girl broke through on the UK indie scene in 1982 with a stark jazz-folk cover of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”. They then released a string of UK gold albums throughout the 80s, experimenting with jazz, guitar pop, orchestral wall-of-sound and drum-machine soul. After Watt’s near-death experience from a rare auto-immune condition in 1992, the pair returned unbowed with the million-selling ardent folktronica of ‘Amplified Heart’ in 1994. It includes their biggest hit, “Missing”, after New York DJ-producer Todd Terry’s remix unexpectedly made the leap from heavy club play to global radio success (Number 2 US Hot 100; Number 3 UK Top 40).

The sparkling ‘Walking Wounded’ – emotional songs brimming with ideas from the mid 90s electronic scene – followed in 1996 (Number 4 UK Album Chart). Spawning four UK Top 40 hits, the record became the band’s first platinum selling album. After their final show at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2000, the pair chose to quit Everything But The Girl on a high.

 

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