tracey thorn, "out of the woods" lp

surely the words 'Tracey Thorn' gave a big clue in advance re 'proper songwriter'?

is it better than Ben Watt's 'Pop A Cap In Yo Ass' is the question.

the Ada remix of "Grand Canyon" is killing me tonight. who else wishes so badly that she and tracey would collaborate on a whole album? in a perfect world i could will that into existence.

you might get your way, she hasn't mentioned her collaborators for album #3

i recently really sat down and listened to out of the woods and i am very slightly obsessed with it now. that album is straight amazing, start to finish, and the covers ("smoke and mirrors", "king's cross") she used as b-sides are really lovely.

why was this album so overlooked? was it because she refused to do promotion for it, or did people who heard it not love it?

Tracey Thorn 'Love And Its Opposite' Album released 17th May 2010 on
Strange Feeling Records
Free download of opening track 'Oh, The Divorces!' available now from:
http://www.strangefeelingrecords.com/divorces.html

hurray. ewan pearson on production duties again.

and no tracey and ben have not fallen out, they got married last year, and this album is being released on a buzzin' fly sub-label.

curious as to what the deal is with her and Jens Lekman, she mentions him by name on this new song/he mentions her by name on one of the songs he's been playing since last year/they did a duet of 'yeah! oh yeah!' for the merge comp last year, now a Lee Hazlewood cover for this album and supposedly she contributed vocals for a song on his new record, provided it ever gets finished/sees release.

the Ada remix of "Grand Canyon" is killing me tonight. who else wishes so badly that she and tracey would collaborate on a whole album? in a perfect world i could will that into existence.

― aaron d.g., Sunday, 13 July 2008 06:11 (1 year ago) Bookmark

Roger that. Ada needs to hurry up and put another album out. I was really surprised that Blondie didn't seem to feature in any best of the 00s polls.

One song streaming/downloading on her site:

http://www.traceythorn.com

not sure what to make of the new song, need to digest

The new album is lovely: intelligent, classy. "Hormones" is wittier than anything she's written before and in EBTG.

I really love the new album. I listened to it while being lost in kansas at 4 in the morning. SO much better than any of her last few albums.

Why Does The Wind? is beautiful. Aren't more people listening to this?

i keep thinking i've posted on this thread - the new album is great, yes, better than out of the woods imo - she has this great way of being poised but never arch, so she can affect a slight detachment without ever sacrificing emotion. i'm not keen on "hormones" or "singles bar", but "oh, the divorces!", "why does the wind?", "kentish town", "come on home to me", "long white dress", "swimming" = all keepers.

she's excellent on twitter, too.

Have you heard her cover of Taxi Cab, Lex? I know you hate Vampire Weekend but just pretend it's a Tracey original. It's gorgeous.

The Andre Lodemann remix of Why Does the Wind? is fantastic too - her voice is made for house music.

http://soundcloud.com/buzzinfly/tracey-thorn-why-does-the-wind-andre-lodemann-remix-extract

i was hoping there'd be remixes!!! the ada remix of "grand canyon" off her last album, as noted upthread, is ace. and with ewan pearson being her bff there'd be no excuse for not doing some.

i might try "taxi cab" but the thing about tracey's voice is that she enunciates so precisely and clearly that you can't ignore the words. i love this on her own material cuz she's a great lyricist ("oh, the divorces!" omg), but vampire weekend lyrics tend to make me break out in hives.

so far this looks like a top ten album for me.

I have been listening to 'Love & Its Opposite' non-stop for nearly a week at home; it has finally dawned on me how wonderful an album it is.