Classic Albums: Everything But The Girl - Temperamental

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For most of the people at Former Yugoslavia this band is well known with song Missing from album Amplified Heart(1994). But fact that band was released ten album is less known.
Temperamental is their tenth album released on 27. September 1999 by Atlantic Records in USA and Virgin Records in Europe. Temperamental was reissued by Edsel Records as a two-disc deluxe set on 4 September 2015.
According to critics, album is continuation of the musical direction from previous album, Walking Wounded. Drum and bass breakbeats and turn into “old school” garage house or even deep house, with vulnerable lyrics and vocal performance from Tracey Thorn.
Fun Fact: Album was recorded in 1998. immidiate period after birth of Tracey Thorn’s twin daughters. Most of her vocals recorded during late-night studio session, after the twins had gone to sleep.

Track listing

  1. Five Fathoms
  2. Low Tide of the Night
  3. Blame
  4. Hatfield 1980
  5. Temperamental
  6. Compression
  7. Downhill Racer
  8. Lullaby of Clubland
  9. No Difference
  10. The Future of the Future (Stay Gold) (with Deep Dish)

Everything But the Girl

Tracey Thorn - vocals
Ben Watt - bass, guitars, keyboards, strings, beats, scratching, sound editing and programming, mixing, production

Album on Youtube