Everything But the GirlBest Everything But the Girl Albums Ranked

Walking Wounded

pitchfork

9.0

“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the intersection of pop and trip-hop and love and memory in a stellar record from 1996.”

Amplified Heart

pitchfork

8.6

“Though their 1994 album became most famous for a surprise hit remix, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt’s spare, pensive style never sounded more fully realized than here.”

Fuse

nme

8.0

“Has their proved a more pleasing or fruitful reunion in recent years than that of Everything But The Girl? Formed in 1982, the dance-pop duo – consisting of husband and wife team Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt – have spent the past two decades on separate, successful solo projects and raising their family. It was during lockdown that the pair toyed with the idea of a new record and gingerly began worki”

Fuse

rollingstone

8.0

“Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn are back with one of the year's most welcome comebacks”

Fuse

pitchfork

7.7

“After 24 years, the electronic pop duo returns with a moving, handsome album that tells a sophisticated story about recapturing innocence.”

Eden

pitchfork

7.0

“The reissues of the first four albums by Everything But the Girl tell the story of a young band searching for an identity to call its own. They veer from ramshackle Brit indie to gaudy college rock, soft-focus dream pop blind to Thatcherian reality, and lo-fi takes on big 1980s pop.”