Having been a Hospital Records mainstay for over two decades, Logistics infuses his signature drum & bass sound palette into 'Run A Red Light', a 2023 future classic home to a fusion of pop & electronic influences that Everything But The Girl have become widely acclaimed for over the years. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Run A Red Light (Logistics Remix)
2. Run A Red Light (Logistics Instrumental Dub Mix)

First released in 1984, 'Eden' is the acclaimed debut album from Everything But The Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singer-writer musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 26-track deluxe CD reissue edition featuring additional B-sides 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 Negro/ Warner and is the merging of the pair's respective worlds. Thorn's unshowy soulful voice and Watt's jazz-folk 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 double- bassist Chucho Merchan, Brazilian percussionist Bosco D'Oliveira, veteran alto saxophonist Peter King, and Charles Hayward from experimental London futurists, This Heat, on drums.

Some B-sides 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 follow-up album. June Miles-Kingston (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 duo's 1983 version of Paul Weller's 'English Rose', originally recorded for the NME's 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.

TRACK LISTING

1. Each And Every One
2. Bittersweet
3. Tender Blue
4. Another Bridge
5. The Spice Of Life
6. The Dustbowl
7. Crabwalk
8. Even So
9. Frost And Fire
10. Fascination
11. I Must Confess
12. Soft Touch 
13. English Rose
14. Laugh You Out Of The House
15. Never Could Have Been Worse
16. Mine
17. Gun Cupboard Love
18. Easy As Sin
19. Native Land
20. Riverbed Dry
21. Don’t You Go
22. Each And Every One (Home Demo 1983)
23. Bittersweet (Home Demo 1983)
24. Even So (Home Demo 1983)
25. Frost And Fire (Home Demo 1983)
26. Soft Touch (Home Demo 1983) 

First released in June 1994, 'Amplified Heart' is the seventh studio album from Everything But The Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singerwriter-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 31-track deluxe CD reissue edition featuring additional B-sides and extra tracks.It also contains the original version of what was to become the band's biggest hit, 'Missing'.

If Todd Terry's famous house remix took Missing onto the world's dance floors and global pop charts in 1995 (#2 on US Billboard Hot 100; #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay; #3 on the UK Top 40; #1 in Canada, Germany and Italy), the original version also remains a timeless classic and one that perhaps better reflects the enduring appeal of the album's modern-retro hybrid of ardent folk-soul and scratchy electronica.

The genesis of 'Amplified Heart' was anything but easy. Written in the aftermath of Watt's harrowing near-death experience in 1992 from a rare auto-immune disease, the lyrics - written alternately by the duo - are raw unflinching stories of love and isolation in extremity.

To anchor the album's heart, the pair turned in part to folk-rock legends Danny Thompson (double bass), Dave Mattacks (drums), and engineer Jerry Boys (Sandy Denny, REM), but also to electronic producer, John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized) to find the loops and dusty sounds that give the record much of its underlying atmosphere. There are cameo roles from Richard Thompson on electric guitar ('25th December') and veteran string arranger Harry Robinson ('I Don't Understand Anything', 'Two Star').

Pitchfork awarded the album 8.6 in a 2019 reappraisal, noting the album's enduring influence on artists that followed such as The xx and Beth Orton and concluded "The duo's spare, pensive style never sounded more fully realized than here."

Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road, the tracklist varies slightly from the last deluxe edition in 2013 with a smattering of newly-unearthed live recordings and a previously unreleased remix. The original artwork is newly laid out by John Gilsenan at I Want Design and features full lyrics and credits, and images from the period by fashion and documentary photographer Corinne Day and Richard Haughton.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rollercoaster
2. Troubled Mind
3. I Don’t Understand Anything
4. Walking To You
5. Get Me
6. Missing
7. Two Star
8. We Walk The Same Line
9. 25th December
10. Disenchanted
11. I Don’t Understand Anything (Demo)
12. Rollercoaster (Demo)
13,.Two Star (Demo)
14. Troubled Mind (Demo)
15. We Walk The Same Line (Demo)
16. Richard Says (Demo)
17. Back At Square One (Demo)
18. Two Star (Harry Robinson’s String Arrangement) (Demo)
19. Straight Back To You 
20. Lights Of Te Touan
21. These Days (Live)
22. Each And Every One (Live)
23. I Don’t Want To Talk About It (Live)
24. Rollercoaster (Toronto, 1994) 
25. Troubled Mind (Toronto, 1994)
26. Walking To You (Toronto, 1994)
27. 25th December (Toronto, 1994)
28. Missing (London, 1997) 
29. Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix, Radio Edit)
30. Missing (Ultramarine Remix)
31. Rollercoaster (King Britt Scuba Ambient Mix)

Brand new collection curated personally by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn. Spanning over forty years from their debut single 'Night and Day' through to the acclaimed contemporary electronica of 2023's UK Top 3 album 'Fuse'.

Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, the album comes with a 16-page booklet containing full lyrics and comprehensive credits.

TRACK LISTING

1. Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
2. Nothing Left To Lose
3. Tracey In My Room (Lazy Dog Bootleg Vocal Mix)
4. Walking Wounded
5. Single
6. Corcovado
7. Before Today
8. No Difference
9. Driving
10. Each And Every One
11. Rollercoaster
12. I Don't Want To Talk About It
13. The Only Living Boy In New York
14. Cross My Heart
15. Run A Red Light
16. Night And Day 

Everything But The Girl - aka EBTG - was formed in 1982 by singer-songwriter-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Their debut single was a stark jazz-folk cover of Cole Porter's Night and Day.

Acclaimed for their tender-tough lyrics, Thorn’s unique voice and Watt’s arrangements, they released a string of UK gold albums throughout the 1980s experimenting with jazz, guitar pop, orchestral wall-of-sound and drum-machine soul.

In the 1990 they released three albums, Amplified Heart, Walking Wounded and Temperamental, which gained them huge critical acclaim and commercial success. Then in 2000 they chose to quit. Tracey focused on family life away from the spotlight before returning with a run of solo albums and best-selling autobiographical books. Ben moved into DJing and remixing, and launched the respected electronic label, Buzzin' Fly. He returned to his singer-songwriter roots with a trilogy of solo albums from 2014-2020.

Now at last, the duo return with their new LP, which sees Tracey’s distinctive dolorous vocals topping their downtempo grooves. And as you’d expect, the songwriting is exemplary. Some, 20 years on, it feels like a natural progression from their ‘90s sound, filtered through the uncertainty and confusion of the intervening years.

TRACK LISTING

1. Nothing Left To Lose
2. Run A Red Light
3. Caution To The Wind
4. When You Mess Up
5. Time And Time Again
6. No One Knows We’re Dancing
7. Lost
8. Forever
9. Interior Space
10. Karaoke

Everything But The Girl's best-selling debut album, 'Eden' is the latest re-release from the duo to benefit from half-speed remastering at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, and a fresh 180gm vinyl pressing.

Originally released in May 1984, the album spent almost six months on the official UK album chart peaking at number 14 and spawned the UK Top 40 hit, Each and Every One. The label wanted further singles but the duo preferred the album to grow by word of mouth. 'Eden' achieved gold album status in the UK and has gone on to sell more than 500,000 copies worldwide.

Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn met at the University of Hull in 1981; they formed Everything But The Girl initially as a side-project, as both had already established themselves on the UK independent music scene as teenagers - Tracey with her lo-fi minimal girl group, Marine Girls (later name-checked as one of Kurt Cobain's favourite bands); Ben as a young guitarist and singer-songwriter, collaborating with alt-folk icon Robert Wyatt on his debut EP.

In the summer of 1983 the pair - having each gone on to to release debut solo albums - decided to pool their new songs for 'Eden'. It was recorded with producer Robin Millar (chosen for his work with Weekend and The Pale Fountains) at his Power Plant Studios in Willesden, North West London.

"All the songs were written on guitar in Hull in early 1983. We were living in one room with a shared kitchen on Pearson Park," recalls Tracey. "Power Plant seemed very glamorous by comparison. Sade was recording downstairs. We were upstairs."

The sessions featured a band handpicked by Ben and Tracey: Working Week's Simon Booth on second guitar, This Heat’s Charles Hayward on drums, and South American musicians Chucho Merchan (double bass) and Bosco D’Oliveira (percussion) plus a clutch of top horn players from the English jazz scene. The line-up was part friends from London, part musicians Ben admired from trips to the Bull's Head jazz room with his dad when growing up, in particular Peter King (alto sax).

"We were intent on being non-rock," says Ben. "No clichés. No snare drums, no solid body electric guitars or electric bass. We wanted soft horns, Gretsch guitars, no fuss, a lightness of touch. We were into pop, latin, torch songs, sharp lyrics."

The album was released on the newly-formed imprint Blanco Y Negro (co-run by Mike Alway and Rough Trade's Geoff Travis) through Warner, and signalled Everything But The Girl’s move from an independent - Cherry Red - to a major label.

The artwork by Marine Girls band member Jane Fox was delivered as a three-dimensional collage of hand-drawn art and torn paper. Warner (who were marketing and distributing the record) didn’t really know what to do with it. The original version didn’t even have the name of the band on it. In the end it was photographed and printed on ‘reverse-board stock’ - unusual for a major release at the time.

TRACK LISTING

Each And Every One
Bittersweet
Tender Blue
Another Bridge
The Spice Of Life
The Dustbowl
Crabwalk
Even So
Frost And Fire
Fascination
I Must Confess
Soft Touch

Following on from the recent and well received half-speed masters of ‘Amplified Heart’ and ‘Walking Wounded’, Buzzin’ Fly are proud to release EBTG’s 1999 album ‘Temperamental’.

The album is a follow on from the global success of Walking Wounded in 1996 and features a myriad of rhythmic pop styles, including deep house grooves, fierce drum & bass and hip-hop infused funk. It contains the singles Five Fathoms, Blame and the title track Temperamental.

The original vinyl was released on a limited edition ‘DJ friendly’ vinyl which is now a collectable item. The artwork for this new edition has been re-created from the original source material to bring it in line with the original CD version. Like the previous two releases, it has been Mastered and Cut at half-speed by Miles Showell at London’s Abbey Road Studios.

Walking Wounded was first released in April 1996 and debuted at #4 on the UK Album Chart and contains four UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits "Walking Wounded" and "Wrong," and set new a benchmark for the intersection of contemporary electronic music and smart pop songwriting.

The album was programmed and produced by Watt in 1995 largely in the basement of the duo's north London home demo studio. "Just an Akai sampler, a computer, a synth and guitar, an inexpensive vocal mic, and an 8-track tape machine," he says of the process. "We were writing in reverse - mood first, then songs, learning and we went along. It just felt like a new frontier," adds Thorn. Producer John Coxon of the recently formed drum'n'bass-inspired duo Spring Heel Jack - and with whom the Watt and Thorn had worked on Amplified Heart - was invited to provide a backing track for the album's title song, and beats specialist Howie B worked on the groove for Flipside. The album was then mixed at The Townhouse in west London by Watt and young emerging engineer, Andy Bradfield.

The new vinyl edition has been mastered by long-time Everything But The Girl mastering engineer, Miles Showell, now at Abbey Road Studios, who is one of only a handful of engineers specialising in half-speed mastering that uses new techniques to more faithfully reproduce the sound of original master tapes.

TRACK LISTING

Before Today 
Wrong
Single
The Heart Remains A Child
Walking Wounded
Flipside
Big Deal
Mirrorball
Good Cop Bad Cop

Amplified Heart was Everything But The Girl’s million-selling and critically acclaimed seventh studio album and now appears for the first time on vinyl in a deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition mastered at half-speed for optimum audio fidelity by Miles Showell at London’s Abbey Road Studios.

The record - released in early 1994 by UK alt-pop duo Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - contains the original version of what was to become the band’s biggest hit, Missing. If Todd Terry’s famous house remix took that song onto the world’s dance floors and upper reaches of the global pop charts in 1995 (#2 on US Billboard Hot 100, #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay, #3 on the UK Top 40, and #1 in Canada, Germany and Italy), the original version also remains a timeless classic, now in heavy demand on modern streaming services, and one that perhaps better reflects the enduring appeal of the album’s modern-retro hybrid of ardent folk-soul and scratchy electronica.

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt met whilst at University in Hull in the early 80’s. Both were signed independently to indie label Cherry Red Records, Ben as a solo artist and Tracey as part of the band The Marine Girls. They formed Everything But The Girl in early ‘82, releasing one single on Cherry Red (Cole Porter’s ‘Night & Day’) before signing to Blanco Y Negro records and releasing their debut album ‘Eden’ to critical acclaim.

Following this, they released 5 further highly praised and commercially successful albums including the much-loved classic singles, These Early Days, Driving and the covers ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ and ‘The Only Living Boy In New York’. ‘Amplified Heart’ was the seventh full-length album released in June 1994, featuring the singles ‘Missing’ and ‘Rollercoaster’. Primarily an acoustic driven album, it features heavyweight session musicians and guests, Danny Thompson (bass), Martin Ditcham (percussion), Dave Mattacks (drums) and Richard Thompson lead guitar on the track 25th December.

“We’ve alway been proud of Amplified Heart” says Ben, reflecting on the new edition. “It’s both close to the bone - understandable given it’s background - but also gentle in it’s touch, and shot through with resiliance. The newly mastered pressing sounds amazing - as good as the original tapes.” “I think it’s a real rebirth record” adds Tracey, “the momenent we got our mojo back. And it’s where ‘Missing’ began, so it’s a significant album for us.”

TRACK LISTING

Rollercoaster
Troubled Mind
I Don’t Understand Anything
Walking To You
Get Me
Missing
Two Star
We Walk The Same Line
25th December
Disenchanted