Everything But The Girl Announce New Album Blue Reservoir: Hear “Young And Dumb”

They got me with this one. Everything But The Girl, the long-running UK duo of married couple Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, recently started releasing new music and playing live again after a decades-long break, and the first single from their upcoming album Blue Reservoir is all about aging and missing the version of yourself that did ridiculous, passionate, self-destructive things all the time. In a soft and husky rasp, Thorn sings, "Yes I’m older and wiser/ I know more than I did then/ But I’d give up all the wisdom to be young and dumb again." Whoof. That's too real. I'm not sure I was ready to confront that level of realness on a Wednesday morning in October.Everything But The Girl started way back in 1982, and they went through a number of different styles, from the slinky sophisti-pop of their early days to the slinky drum 'n' bass that they adapted in the late '90s. (The sounds were different, but the slinkiness remained.) EBTG went inactive after 1999's Temperamental — great album — so that Thorn and Watt could focus on their solo careers. In 2023, they returned with the comeback album Fuse, which found them playing around with dance textures once again. Last year, they retur...