We are excited to announce a new deluxe CD reissue series of our studio albums 1984-1999, beginning on April 3 with the release of 1984's debut Eden (1xCD), and 1994's million-seller, Amplified Heart (2xCD).

The collection, mastered at Abbey Road Studios, will feature the original album, bonus tracks, refreshed gatefold artwork, photos from the period, and full lyrics and credits. More albums are due later in the year.

EDEN

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.

The album features a handpicked band including Simon Booth (Weekend, Working Week) on additional guitar, Colombian double-bassist Chucho Merchan, Brazilian percussionist Bosco De 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 now out-of-print 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.

EDEN 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 | EXTRA TRACKS 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 singer-writer-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 31-track deluxe CD reissue edition featuring additional B-sides and extra tracks.

Amplified Heart went on to sell over a million copies and was acclaimed on its release for its candour and affecting intimacy (“The results are, to a song, high quality” MOJO; “Captures expertly the fragmentary confusing nature of emotional ruction” INDEPENDENT; “Their newest album, and possibly their best” NEW YORK TIMES). 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 now out-of-print 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 Richard Haughton, and fashion and documentary photographer, Corinne Day.

CD 1 AMPLIFIED HEART 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 / DEMOS (1992-1993) 11. I Don’t Understand Anything / 12. Rollercoaster / 13. Two Star / 14. Troubled Mind / 15. We Walk The Same Line / 16. Richard Says / 17. Back At Square One / 18. Two Star (Harry Robinson’s String Arrangement) | CD 2 B-SIDES (1994) 1. Straight Back To You / 2. Lights Of Te Touan / 3. These Days (Live) / 4. Each And Every One (Live) / 5. I Don’t Want To Talk About It (Live) / LIVE 6. Rollercoaster (Toronto, 1994) / 7. Troubled Mind (Toronto, 1994) / 8. Walking To You (Toronto, 1994) / 9. 25th December (Toronto, 1994) / 10. Missing (London, 1997) / REMIXES 11. Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix, Radio Edit) / 12. Missing (Ultramarine Remix) / 13. Rollercoaster (King Britt Scuba Ambient Mix)