{"product_id":"everything-but-the-girl-eden","title":"Everything But The Girl - Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst released in 1984, Eden is the acclaimed debut album from Everything \u003cbr\u003eBut The Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singer-writer\u003cbr\u003emusicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 26-track deluxe \u003cbr\u003eCD reissue edition featuring additional B-sides and extra tracks\u003cbr\u003eRecorded and mixed over nine days in September 1983 and produced by Robin Millar, \u003cbr\u003eEden spawned the UK Top 40 hit Each And Every One and went on to sell over half a \u003cbr\u003emillion copies worldwide.\u003cbr\u003eThorn and Watt met at Hull University in 1981 and over the next two years became \u003cbr\u003esuccessful solo artists and songwriters on London indie Cherry Red. Eden signalled a \u003cbr\u003emajor label move to Blanco Y Negro\/ Warner and is the merging of the pair's \u003cbr\u003erespective worlds. Thorn's unshowy soulful voice and Watt's jazz-folk guitar and latin\u003cbr\u003eflavoured arrangements take centre stage. The sound is sharpened by lyrics that offer \u003cbr\u003eboth acerbic takedowns and a bittersweet disarming intimacy.\u003cbr\u003eThe album features a handpicked band including Simon Booth (Weekend, Working \u003cbr\u003eWeek) on additional guitar, Colombian double- bassist Chucho Merchan, Brazilian \u003cbr\u003epercussionist Bosco D'Oliveira, veteran alto saxophonist Peter King, and Charles \u003cbr\u003eHayward from experimental London futurists, This Heat, on drums.\u003cbr\u003eSome B-sides from the time were recorded shortly after the Eden sessions. Later \u003cbr\u003etracks from the same year point towards the tighter pop sound the pair were to \u003cbr\u003edevelop both on the road and on the follow-up album. June Miles-Kingston (Modettes, \u003cbr\u003eFun Boy Three) joins on drums, Phil Moxham (Young Marble Giants) on electric bass, \u003cbr\u003eand Johnny Marr guests on harmonica on Native Land.\u003cbr\u003eThe running order follows the template of the last deluxe edition in 2012, but - with the \u003cbr\u003emaster tape only recently unearthed - adds the duo's 1983 version of Paul Weller's \u003cbr\u003eEnglish Rose, originally recorded for the NME's Racket Packet cassette.\u003cbr\u003eMastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, the album features the original \u003cbr\u003eartwork by Jane Fox in a new layout by John Gilsenan at IWant Design, with full lyrics, \u003cbr\u003ecredits and photos from the period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHRYSALIS RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"CD Deluxe Edition (ReIssue)","offer_id":53616550216007,"sku":"TRI-72166","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/8003a7cdd823b4ec3645a8a70b1a1e04.jpg?v=1774859103","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/everything-but-the-girl-eden","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}