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Track List
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
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
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2010
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Love and Its Opposite is the third solo album by former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn, released on 17 May 2010. The album was released on Thorn's husband Ben Watt's label Strange Feeling in the UK, and on Merge Records in North America. It was produced by Ewan Pearson, who also produced tracks on Thorn's previous album Out of the Woods. The album peaked at number 51 in the UK Albums Chart.Love and Its Opposite was recorded in Berlin and London, and features guest contributions from Hot Chip's Al Doyle, The Invisible's Leo Taylor, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, Nashville musician Cortney Tidwell and Los Valentinos' guitarist Jono. It contains eight original songs and two cover versions: Lee Hazlewood's "Come on Home to Me" (a duet with Jens Lekman) and "You Are a Lover" by The Unbending Trees (with whom Thorn collaborated in 2008). The album's opening track, "Oh, the Divorces!", was made available as a free digital download on 17 February 2010, along with the confirmation of the album's track list.
Thorn has described the theme of the album as "a record about the person I am now and the people around me ... about real life after forty."
The cover art was designed by John Gilsenan.
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The quote accompanying Love and Its Opposite is mildly terrifying. “When I was young, I imagined middle age to be a kind of comfort zone,” says Thorn, “but in fact, having got here, I feel it's more of a war zone. The songs are where I dump all that s*** so that I can get on with my life without jumping off a bridge.” And though this hardly qualifies as an inducement to listen, there’s something delightfully honest about it. It’s almost anti-press.
Such painfully spare sentiment is echoed in both the lyrics and the pared-down arrangements on Thorn’s latest, on which she’s worked with musicians as disparate as Hot Chip’s Al Doyle, Swedish alt-pop’s Jens Lekman and Nashville singer-songwriter Cortney Tidwell. But the Ewan Pearson-produced, back-to-basics approach does mean those honest lyrics stand out more, and seem even starker. On Singles Bar she asks, “Can you guess my age in this light?” over a simple, swaying twang, before revealing how she “laid on her back for a Hollywood wax”. It might be that it’s simply too honest for some.
But that’s not to say Love and Its Opposite is all over-share. Lee Hazelwood cover Come on Home to Me has swirling atmospherics; there’s a sort of triumphant sweetness to Long White Dress’s acoustic melancholy; 60s handclaps inform the giddier Hormones; and there’s even some bare electro-pop in the pulsing Why Does the Wind. Swimming proves to be the highlight, though, with its provocation to “go on” over a building accompaniment that swirls like the water Thorn’s determined to wade through.
And through it all, there’s That Voice – nobody else sounds like Thorn. When you’re blessed with an instrument this pure, and this suited to melancholy, it’s easy to see how the ex-Marine Girl might be headed for Pop Treasure status. Her enviable clarity of tone and the disarming beauty of her vocals lend Love and Its Opposite a dreamy, if uncomfortable, sort of truth. But blithe, sunny romantics are advised to keep a stiff drink (and a hanky) within very easy reach.
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Love and Its Opposite is the third solo album by former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn, released on 17 May 2010. The album was released on Thorn's husband Ben Watt's label Strange Feeling in the UK, and on Merge Records in North America. It was produced by Ewan Pearson, who also produced tracks on Thorn's previous album Out of the Woods. The album peaked at number 51 in the UK Albums Chart.Love and Its Opposite was recorded in Berlin and London, and features guest contributions from Hot Chip's Al Doyle, The Invisible's Leo Taylor, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, Nashville musician Cortney Tidwell and Los Valentinos' guitarist Jono. It contains eight original songs and two cover versions: Lee Hazlewood's "Come on Home to Me" (a duet with Jens Lekman) and "You Are a Lover" by The Unbending Trees (with whom Thorn collaborated in 2008). The album's opening track, "Oh, the Divorces!", was made available as a free digital download on 17 February 2010, along with the confirmation of the album's track list.
Thorn has described the theme of the album as "a record about the person I am now and the people around me ... about real life after forty."
The cover art was designed by John Gilsenan.
User Album Review
The quote accompanying Love and Its Opposite is mildly terrifying. “When I was young, I imagined middle age to be a kind of comfort zone,” says Thorn, “but in fact, having got here, I feel it's more of a war zone. The songs are where I dump all that s*** so that I can get on with my life without jumping off a bridge.” And though this hardly qualifies as an inducement to listen, there’s something delightfully honest about it. It’s almost anti-press.
Such painfully spare sentiment is echoed in both the lyrics and the pared-down arrangements on Thorn’s latest, on which she’s worked with musicians as disparate as Hot Chip’s Al Doyle, Swedish alt-pop’s Jens Lekman and Nashville singer-songwriter Cortney Tidwell. But the Ewan Pearson-produced, back-to-basics approach does mean those honest lyrics stand out more, and seem even starker. On Singles Bar she asks, “Can you guess my age in this light?” over a simple, swaying twang, before revealing how she “laid on her back for a Hollywood wax”. It might be that it’s simply too honest for some.
But that’s not to say Love and Its Opposite is all over-share. Lee Hazelwood cover Come on Home to Me has swirling atmospherics; there’s a sort of triumphant sweetness to Long White Dress’s acoustic melancholy; 60s handclaps inform the giddier Hormones; and there’s even some bare electro-pop in the pulsing Why Does the Wind. Swimming proves to be the highlight, though, with its provocation to “go on” over a building accompaniment that swirls like the water Thorn’s determined to wade through.
And through it all, there’s That Voice – nobody else sounds like Thorn. When you’re blessed with an instrument this pure, and this suited to melancholy, it’s easy to see how the ex-Marine Girl might be headed for Pop Treasure status. Her enviable clarity of tone and the disarming beauty of her vocals lend Love and Its Opposite a dreamy, if uncomfortable, sort of truth. But blithe, sunny romantics are advised to keep a stiff drink (and a hanky) within very easy reach.
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