Everything But The Girl

Young
and Dumb

The first single from Blue Reservoir, Everything But The Girl’s eleventh studio album, announced the same day for February 19, 2027. After the electronics of Fuse, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt go back to their roots: inspired by their MOTH Club shows in London, the record was cut largely live at RAK Studios in ten days in July – voices, Watt’s nylon-string guitar, double bass, drums and percussion. Under three minutes, track three of ten.

Everything But The Girl: Tracey Thorn (vocals, background vocals), Ben Watt (nylon-string guitar, background vocals). Rex Horan (double bass), Evan Jenkins (drums), Fabio de Oliveira (tamborim, shaker). Written and produced by Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Recorded and mixed by Bruno Ellingham, assisted by Alice Western and Isaac Allen, at RAK Studios, London; mastered by Miles Showell. Buzzin’ Fly Records / Virgin Music Group, 2026. Video directed by Edward Bishop from a treatment by Thorn and Watt. Sources: That Eric Alper, SPIN, Retro Pop. Photograph: Walthamstow Wetlands, the nature reserve around nine reservoirs in Waltham Forest, London, September 3, 2018, by Irid Escent, CC BY-SA 2.0. Wikimedia Commons. This tinted crop is shared under the same licence.