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You know her since the 80s with her band “Everything But The Girl”, she made a solo project after years of absence, raising her children. Yeah it’s a good excuse! 
Tracey Thorn is an English pop singer and songwriter. She is best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl.She grew up in Hatfield, Hertfordshire and studied English at the University of Hull, where she graduated in 1984 with First Class Honours. She lives with her 25 years EBTG partner Ben Watt in North London.Thorn began her musical career in the group Marine Girls.Since 1982 she is a member of the duo Everything but the Girl.Thorn’s first solo work was a mini-album entitled A Distant Shore (1982). A re-recorded version of the track “Plain Sailing” was released as a single, and was included on the Pillows & Prayers Cherry Red records compilation album.She collaborated with Massive Attack on several projects, including the soundtrack for the motion picture Batman Forever where she contributed with “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game”. Their first project together was the song “Protection EP” from the album by Massive Attack of the same name. She also sings on the track “Better Things”.In the 1980s, Thorn also contributed guest vocals and backing vocals for The Style Council, The Go-Betweens, Working Week, and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Her most recent collaboration, after a lengthy singing hiatus, was on the song “Damage” by the band Tiefschwarz on the album Eat Books.In March 2007, Tracey Thorn released her second solo album Out of the Woods on Virgin Records (Worldwide) and on Astralwerks (USA). It includes contributions from Cagedbaby, Ewan Pearson, Charles Webster, Sasse, Darshan Jesrani and Martin Wheeler. Thorn’s MySpace page includes several mixes of the single and the music video. The 1st single from her 2007 album, “It’s All True”, which was released in February 7th and the zsecond single, “Raise the Roof” was released on June 18. The third single, “Grand Canyon” was released on October 30.In mid-October 2007, Thorn commented that she has begun to write and collaborate with producer, Ewan Pearson, for the follow-up to Out of the Woods.(Wikipedia)
Her latest album ‘Out Of The Woods’ is available at HMV and iTunes .
Here’s the music video for ‘Raise the Roof’:
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=9099731
She’s actually recorded new songs that you can listen to her myspace. A new album is coming as she wrote:
“What’s it like then? There’s 8 new songs by me and 2 covers (not telling you what yet, partly cos I haven’t yet told one of the people whose song I have covered and I think I should tell him first before I tell you – the writer of the other one is, sadly, dead so I can perhaps tell you that there is a cover of a song by Lee Hazlewood).
A lot of it is quite sad, but that won’t surprise any of you. It’s my mid-life album, for want of a better description. Let’s just say there are more lyrics about middle-aged divorce than about teenage romance.”
She’s actually finding a solution to release it via Ben Watt’s label and being indie at the same time…it’s always the big deal .
I really love the demo version of ‘Hands up to the ceiling’, can’t wait to hear the full length album.
Meanwhile you can watch this catchy collaboration she has done with The Unbending Trees, I’ve got it in my head now for hours…I love the melody and the lyrics “just wait and see” 
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Fluffety
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I heard the gossip that her other cover on the same album will be by The Unbending Trees, too, their song ‘You Are A Lover’.
Jessica Kuijer
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(35)ok thanks for the info Fluffety
I really like “Overture”, her voice is giving something deep to the melody.