ABOUT THIS ITEM

In 2000, after 20 years of recording and touring, and shortly after the birth of her and Ben Watt's first child, Tracey Thorn walked away from music making to raise a family. She didn't sing a note for five years. But by 2005 she found herself writing again, and with Ben tied up with his own new record label and DJ career and their mutual agreement that EBTG was on long-term hiatus, she chose to go it alone. Eschewing hi-tech equipment, she bought an old-fashioned 4-track cassette recorder, waited for the house to empty during the day and recorded a clutch of raw demos and ideas at home with her guitar and quirky instruments purchased off eBay. In contrast to the primitivism of the demos, she then deliberately handpicked some of the most future-facing and imaginative producers currently working in the world of electronica (Ewan Pearson, Charles Webster, Alex Santos, Cagedbaby's Tom Gandy, Metro Area's Darshan Desrani etc) to help her fully realise the project. The result is "Out Of Woods". Musically it is a snapshot of so much music she has ever been into and about, capturing moments of early 80s disco, pastoral folk-psychedelica, dancefloor pop bliss and stark balladry.