release date: Aug. 8, 1994
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,92]
producer: John Coxon, Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt
label: Warner Music - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: 1. "Missing (Album Version)" - 2. "Each and Every One (Live)" - 3. "I Don't Want to Talk About It (Live)" - 4. "These Days (Live)"
Ep release with the title track taken from the album Amplified Heart, and with 3 live tracks drawn from the band's tour of small clubs in the UK in May 1994. "Missing" became an immediate an unpredictable success, which eventually set a new stylistic course for the duo.
Although, a fine and great single the title track seems like the only track off here, as the three live songs stress the greatness of the duo's past with songs focusing on simplicity, and modern jazz pop that links back to Thorn's background in The Marine Girls. Track #2 is found on the band's debut album from 1984, track #4 "These Days" is a cover originally written and performed by Jackson Browne and track #3 "I Don't Want to Talk About It" is perhaps the strongest cover of that fine song, despite being covered by so many. It's a song written by Danny Whitten from Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse, and here, Thorn and Watt really makes it their. They made another fine studio cover of the track on the album Idlewild from 1988.
