Tracey Thorn "Love And Its Opposites"

Tracey Thorn följer upp hyllade "Out Of The Woods" med ett mer akustiskt album.

After pausing an 18-year career with partner Ben Watt in best-selling alt-pop duo Everything But The Girl (1982-2000), followed by a self-imposed hiatus to start a family, Tracey Thorn re-emerged in 2007 to a wave of critical acclaim with the glittering autobiographical folk-disco of 'Out Of The Woods', her first strictly solo album since 1982's indie classic 'A Distant Shore'. Now she is back with another: the starkly beautiful Love And Its Opposite on Strange Feeling Records.

Partnering again with Berlin-based producer Ewan Pearson (who worked on much of Out of the Woods, and more recently with Delphic), Tracey has created an album that is striking in its simplicity. Recorded in Berlin and London, and featuring guest contributions from Hot Chip's Al Doyle, The Invisible's Leo Taylor, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, Nashville singer-songwriter-drummer Cortney Tidwell and Los Valentinos' guitarist, Jono, Love And Its Opposite is steeped in a compassionate directness. The tight, often undecorated arrangements for guitar, piano, bass, and drums (and a smattering of strings and woodwind) serve ten songs over a compact thirty-nine minutes that confront the full unvarnished weight of complex relationships in flux.

Format:CD