Everything But The Girl – Eden – Deluxe Edition

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 latin-flavoured arrangements take centre stage. The sound is sharpened by lyrics that offer both acerbic takedowns and a bittersweet disarming intimacy.

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