release date: Aug. 1986
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,96]
producer: Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt, Mike Hedges
label: Blanco y Negro - nationality: England, UK
3rd studio album by Everything but the Girl is a move into more sugary sophisti-pop with stress under pop. All songs are as usual credited either the two together or solely Watt or Thorn. Gone are the jangle pop and jazz elements, and it's a clone of swing, big band, and pop soul with lots of violins, brass, and... marimbas.
I have tried to like it, but fail each time - and I think of it as their perhaps least interesting release ever. Not even the front cover is any good. This is really difficult to like.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]
