Eden (2026 Deluxe Edition) CD

First released in 1984, Eden is the acclaimed debut album from Everything But The Girl the bestselling UK duo formed in 1982 by singerwritermusicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt and arrives in a new 26track deluxe CD reissue edition featuring additional Bsides and extra tracks.Recorded and mixed over nine days in September 1983 and produced by Robin Millar, Eden spawned the UK Top 40 hit Each And Every One and went on to sell over half a million copies worldwide.Thorn and Watt met at Hull University in 1981 and over the next two years became successful solo artists and songwriters on London indie Cherry Red. Eden signalled a major label move to Blanco Y NegroWarner and is the merging of the pair039s respective worlds. Thorn039s unshowy soulful voice and Watt039s jazzfolk guitar and latinflavoured arrangements take centre stage. The sound is sharpened by lyrics that offer both acerbic takedowns and a bittersweet disarming intimacy.The album features a handpicked band including Simon Booth Weekend, Working Week on additional guitar, Colombian doublebassist Chucho Merchan, Brazilian percussionist Bosco D039Oliveira, veteran alto saxophonist Peter King, and Charles Hayward from experimental London futurists, This Heat, on drums.Some Bsides from the time were recorded shortly after the Eden sessions. Later tracks from the same year point towards the tighter pop sound the pair were to develop both on the road and on the followup album. June MilesKingston Modettes, Fun Boy Three joins on drums, Phil Moxham Young Marble Giants on electric bass, and Johnny Marr guests on harmonica on Native Land.The running order follows the template of the last deluxe edition in 2012, but with the master tape only recently unearthed adds the duo039s 1983 version of Paul Weller039s English Rose, originally recorded for the NME039s Racket Packet cassette.Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, the album features the original artwork by Jane Fox in a new layout by John Gilsenan at IWant Design, with full lyrics, credits and photos from the period.