can i please be the bearer of the best news this week?
tracey is hopefully releasing a new album in 2009, she's said on her blog that the songs are done and she's due to record vocals over the tracks early in the new year and she's been working with some of the guys from hot chip who actually did that amazing (i cannot stress this enough) remix of her cover of the PSB's king's cross
amazing news, happy new year, etc
the best song wasn't a single
Oooh good news. I hope she explores the electronica side a bit more (not dance especially), the Hot Chip remix of Kings Cross was indeed very amazing, probably my favourite thing from the entire project actually - and the work Hot Chip have been doing with Little Boots certainly doesn't indicate a creative dry spell.
GOOD NEWS
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i was having a tracey morning until it was abruptly interupted a few minutes ago
OOTW was really an excellent album and i still go back to it very often
i actually tracked down the orginal version of get around to it by arthur russell and it's actually quite ace
anyone know if his other stuff sounds similar?
here's the full scoop from tracey's blog
Thursday, December 11, 2008
I promise, I’m on it....
Current mood: impressed
Been a bit quiet again for a while, I know, sorry, haven't really had any news for y'all. Am finally back in the studio this week though, getting some more recording done and an exciting week it's been too.
The plan for this record has always been to set aside for the time being the programmed drums that characterised many of the later EBTG recordings, the interim collaborations with people like Tiefschwarz, and half of Out Of The Woods - and so far everything I've recorded I have played (or sung) myself. I had a few songs I wanted to do with a band though, so one of the reasons for the delay recently has been me attempting to put together a rhythm section to play on these songs. Leo Taylor (who played drums on Get Around To It on the last album) has been out playing live with Hot Chip recently, and by a stroke of luck I managed to find a small window of opportunity in the hectic and never-ending Hot Chip touring schedule, and nabbed him along with Hot Chip's bass and guitar player, Al Doyle. So this week has been spent getting the final tracks recorded and they are sounding utterly fabtastic. I was hoping to get the vocals done on these songs too, but annoyingly a recent cold which the children thoughtfully brought home from school for me has left me with a croaky voice and a bit of a wheeze, which is never a good sound on a lead vocal, unless you are Tom Waits, and quite frankly, I'm not.
So there will need to be a couple more days in the studio after Christmas to get the singing bits sung, and then the thing can be mixed, and, who knows? it may even get made into cd's and sold in the shops, if that is still happening at all by the time it is finished.
More news as and when....
xx
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OH MY GOOD GREAT GOLLIWOG
I can only second that sentiment.
can I just reiterate the pure joy deep in my heart this thread brings
I wish I could sticky it and look at it every day whenever I'm feeling a little low
a blog burst from ms thorn from a couple of weeks ago i just saw, she says the album's half mixed now
and she plugs cortney tidwell's new album (i imagine it's the ewan pearson connection) who collaborated with her on a track for the album
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
tweet tweet
Current mood: enlightened
2 pieces of information to give you -
1. I have started twittering - go and look for me, i am tracey_thorn (couldn't be just tracey thorn cuz someone had already stolen my name, how weird is that?) - so far i have twittered about nothing of any significance, so i am clearly getting the point of it straight away.
2. In my opinion, you ought to go and buy the new Cortney Tidwell album, which is released this week. Cortney is a tremendously nice and talented singer/songwriter from Nashville. She has very kindly collaborated with me on a track that will be on my forthcoming solo record. And her new album is called Boys - you can buy an actual real CD, or even vinyl - and also it can be streamed here
http://www.cityslang.com/ecards/Cort...idwell_en/swf/
My album is half mixed, and will be finished soon - i know, i now, you are bored with me saying that now. I understand.
More when there's more
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in 2012, then
this is still happening... at some point
myspace update:
Thursday, September 03, 2009
it's the final countdown
Current mood: satisfied
OK, so there are only HOURS to go now till this record is finished - those of you who follow my twittering will know that we are in the studio right now on the final day of mixing.
You will also know that my referring to it as a "record" has been met with derision and scorn by one of my 11-year old daughters, who can just about remember CDs, but really is more comfortable with the idea that music is something you download digitally, one song at a time, then listen to on tiny earphones, often with only one ear in, leaving the other ear free for a phone conversation, and both hands free to carry on adding photos of yourself in your new T-shirt to your facebook page. Sorry, did I get off the point there momentarily?
What you want to know is, when can you hear it, and I wish the answer could be, TONIGHT! RIGHT NOW! HERE IT IS! But I'm not allowed to do that I'm afraid. If I was a free agent I could post little snippets of it up here - but I am, as you might have guessed, still officially signed to a "major label" (I KNOW! How quaint is that?) and as such, the terms of my contract are still enforceable, and so this record is theirs, not mine, until it has been agreed what is to be done with it. I am in negotiations with them. I would like to release it in a different kind of way, but agreement has to be reached all round. So that is why I am not uploading new songs via my twitter page, or just texting it direct to your phone (yes, I do have your number, all of you).
I'm sure it will all be resolved soon enough. In all honesty I suspect we may see Christmas before we see actual copies of this CD, but that's the way these things work - however it gets released, there will inevitably be a delay now between the finishing of it, and then its release. I'm assuming you do want an actual CD don't you? Or don't you? I suspect you do. You could let me know.
What's it like then? There's 8 new songs by me and 2 covers (not telling you what yet, partly cos I haven't yet told one of the people whose song I have covered and I think I should tell him first before I tell you - the writer of the other one is, sadly, dead so I can perhaps tell you that there is a cover of a song by Lee Hazlewood).
It's a much more acoustic record than Out Of The Woods - lots of guitar, and piano, and organ, bit of bass and drums, some strings, not a lot of programming, lots of lovely vocal harmonies. Cortney Tidwell sings and plays drums on one, Jens Lekman sings with me on the Lee Hazlewood cover.
A lot of it is quite sad, but that won't surprise any of you. It's my mid-life album, for want of a better description. Let's just say there are more lyrics about middle-aged divorce than about teenage romance.
That's enough now, or I'll end up reviewing my own record for heaven's sake. Five Stars. Album of the Month. Mercury Prize Winner.
You're always proudest of the one you've just finished. Until you start hearing all the things that are wrong, and then you make another one.
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the second to last paragraph just made me cum
the last paragraph made me love her even more
For all my RAGGING on the last album (I enjoyed it but it wasn't quite the second coming, Funk's sticky mess in the previous post notwithstanding), I'm quite excited about this and that write-up should be dreadfully twee but actually comes across as very endearing. I'd prefer to stick with the synths rather than the strings but I'll be waiting for this one with pretty much bated breath.
I'm guessing an early March release like the previous album, no?
I imagine so
she's always endearing in her posts. She's witty without being smug and so incredibly down to earth.
her last album wasn't the second coming no, but it was still one of the better albums of the year, and the high points were very high indeed
but I'm quite happy about the acoustic shift. I don't need more of the same. Something new works for me, and I doubt it'll be a FOLK album or anything. Not considering who she's working with.
I don't want a return to some of the more limp EBTG moments. But a modern spin on an acoustic sound would be very interesting, yes.
another fabulous (caps) and well worth the read blog entry by ms thorn:
mariah name check of the year?So, finally, after some weeks of waiting, and politely asking the question again in case they didn't hear me the first fifty seven times (they didn't) Virgin/EMI have decided to allow me to release this new solo album of mine on Ben's Strange Feeling label.
Which is what I've been angling for as I really don't think this is a "major label" kind of record. If, indeed, anything is nowadays.
What this means is that a) I am indie again, which is fun cause I haven't been for about, ooh 25 years or something
and b) the "record company" - at whom I can direct all complaints regarding poor artwork reproduction, lack of sales, inability to get me the live slot on X Factor - is now Ben!
We will be having a board meeting in the next few days to discuss things like album running order, sleeve ideas, release dates. Traditionally, at this meeting, I should be told that the album is good but there are "no singles" and inappropriate remix ideas should be put forward. Also attempts to persuade me to talk to the Mail on Sunday, meet with their new Head of Video (Nathan Barley), and discuss the possibility of getting a "Big Room' Mix done of whichever track sounds most like Missing.
I am hoping however, that this time around things might be different, and I will have less explaining to do. Ben has already managed to come up with a title for the album (I tried for the last 6 months, but ended up going blank - he took one look at the lyrics and came up with a great title - to be announced soon!) so i think this might actually work out quite well. Any references to Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola will not be tolerated.
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what a brilliant blog
I fucking love her
oh well, no Virgin support, so this album will sell precisely nothing. Who cares - no expectations means it's all about the music. And she'll make more money from minimal sales with Ben than about 50K sales with Virgin.
Now, I wonder if this means she'll TOUR... surely worth coming to London for, am?
i'm there, funks!
the best song wasn't a single
Very good stuff... I'm back on board after limping my way through the Out Of The Woods "era". I'm having a reappraisal spin of that right now to celebrate. It had better be better than I think it is... or something
oh you'll totally be pleasantly surprised, I'm convinced... I still listen to it now and some of the songs are just SO good
out of the woods is a 10/10 moment for me, i love everything on it in r-rated fashion
the best song wasn't a single
Three tracks in and it's an absolute corker. What was I thinking...
oh my, did this thread really start in 2008? oh well, it's gonna be called love and its opposite and it's coming in may!
from her blog a couple of days ago:
so what happened in the end, chris, did you love it or did you love it?Love and Its Opposite
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Myspace has gone a bit quiet, hasn't it, so I'm not sure how many of you still look at this page?....but anyway, I will try to keep updating with news!
At last I can tell you that the new album will be called "Love and Its Opposite" and it will be out mid-May. Delay has been caused by contractual stuff (you don't want to hear about it, too boring) - but it is now agreed that it will come out on Strange Feeling, and in the US on the lovely Merge label.
The album was recorded in Berlin and London, produced by Ewan Pearson, and consists of 10 songs - eight new tracks by me and two covers - "Come On Home To Me" by Lee Hazlewood, and "You are a lover" by The Unbending Trees.
There will be something to hear before May, but I will let you know as and when....
love T xx
you really should see the video for raise the roof - it's really one of my favourite music videos ever
the best song wasn't a single
oh YAY
and agreed on the above video - one of the best that exists, anywhere, ever
Hello [funky]...
Tracey Thorn's new album was officially announced today. It is called 'Love And Its Opposite'. It will be out on Strange Feeling on May 17 (May 18 Nth America). You can now download a FREE track from the album at Tracey's relaunched website. You can also see the album artwork, a new pic of Tracey, and album background info.
Go to - http://www.traceythorn.com
Love Strange Feeling xox
it's going to be decidely acoustic isn't it? perhaps time for the thread to be moved?
this is the album artwork
from pitchfork
they have an mp3 download of oh, the divorces!, this is the link: http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/...ivorces%21.mp3Artist: Tracey Thorn
Album: Love and Its Opposite
Release Date: May 18
Record Label: Merge (North America), Strange Feeling (UK)
Tracklist:
01 Oh, the Divorces!
02 Long White Dress
03 Hormones
04 Kentish Town
05 Why Does the Wind?
06 You Are a Lover
07 Singles Bar
08 Come on Home to Me
09 Late in the Afternoon
10 Swimming
Notes: Third solo album from former Everything But the Girl singer Thorn. Produced by Ewan Pearson. Features a duet with Jens Lekman on a cover of Lee Hazlewood's "Come on Home to Me", as well as appearances from Cortney Tidwell and members of Hot Chip and the Invisible.
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the free mp3 is EPIC. Understated, but EPIC. Despite the talk I still think the album will be quite similar to OOTW. It's not like that album was a bonafide dance record.
She's still as much "dance" as, say, "Zero 7" are...
oh, the divorces! has really grown on me, i find it miraculous how she can make songs on such mundane topics sound so touching
most songwriters would make nations cringe working with them
anyway i don't think it's been mentioned, but i love her duet with jens lekman on their cover of the magnetic fields' yeah oh yeah
talk about the most sweetly sung bitter song about divorce
the best song wasn't a single
This is out next month? I must remember to get on board with it from the outset. I was lazy with the last one and only got around to it about a year after it's release. If it's going to be mainly acoustic then I'm not overcome with excitement but then I know she'd never put her name to something poor either.
it's coming!!!STRANGE FEELING to me
show details Apr 16 (3 days ago)
Hello ...
Latest Tracey Thorn news for you: 'Oh, The Divorces!' single with Vampire Weekend B-side cover version out tomorrow, collector's edition, new film clip, album pre-ordering
Go to - http://bit.ly/awMfBP
_________________________________
Love Strange Feeling Records xox
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I got that too!
Oh The Divorces has quietly become one of my favourite songs of the year.
Bit weird to have a song that's been freely available for months as the lead single though. Not that she was going to trouble the charts either way...
TRACEY THORN // NEW COLLECTIBLE SINGLE OUT TOMORROW // FILM OF LIVE PERFORMANCE // PRE-ORDER ALBUM
'Absolutely fantastic. A really, really brilliant record' says The Guardian's Alexis Petridis of Tracey Thorn's new single 'Oh, The Divorces!' and forthcoming album 'Love And Its Opposite'.
// Get the single on limited clear 7" vinyl (featuring Tracey's ace non-album cover of Vampire Weekend's 'Taxi Cab' on the B-side) from your local indie retailer this Saturday April 17 (in support of Record Store Day) or get it shipped to you next week here while stocks last. If you miss out, both tracks will on sale digitally through iTunes next week. ('Oh, The Divorces!' on its own is still available as a free download here)
// Exclusively previewed by The Guardian earlier this week, you can also now watch Tracey singing a special live version of 'Oh, The Divorces!' recorded at home (with a little comic help from producer Ewan Pearson and Ben Watt).
// Pre-order the album 'Love And Its Opposite' (out May 17) direct from us with international shipping on CD or ace gatefold vinyl, or from major UK retailers HMV or Amazon.co.uk. North American customers should visit Merge Records for local release information. Elsewhere, most major EU territories, Japan, Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong will carry the album domestically. Other territories will be taking import copies on demand.
// See all the latest breaking album news including recent clips and reviews at www.traceythorn.com
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it's lovely isn't it? and very much keeping in tone with the magnetic fields coverOriginally Posted by VoR
the single won't do anything (if it's all true didn't what will?), so she needs to focus on shifting those albums
the best song wasn't a single
new song why does the wind here: http://stereogum.com/348671/tracey-t...premiere/mp3s/
it's very much electronic and pretty amazing!
woooooooooooooo!
the best song wasn't a single
here it is:
the best song wasn't a single
If you order the new album from HMV it comes with a bonus disc called The Berlin Demos. Any additional Tracey tracks are always welcome.
ooh good to know! *pre-orders*
thanks for the tip!
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