Fuse CD/Blu-ray

Fuseis the first new studio album from Everything But The Girl in 24 years. Written and produced by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn over the springsummer of 2021,Fuseis a modern take on the lustrous electronic soul the band first pioneered in the mid90s. Thorn039s affecting and richlytextured voice is once again up front in Watt039s glimmering landscape of subbass, sharp beats, halflit 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. 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 34When You Mess Up34 and 34Interior Space34. Yet, as confidence grew, so did the pulse and rhythm of the album, culminating in the writing and programming of later songs, such as the new single 34Nothing Left To Lose34 and 34Caution To The Wind34. Shot through with alternating hope, desperation and vivid flashbacks, the album039s lyrics sometimes allusive, sometimes richly detailed capture what it039s like to start again.6panel Digipak with bookletbonus BluRay of album mixesin Dolby Atmos spatial audio