Everything But The Girl

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 — and 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 returned 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 Sep 23, 2026.