Everything But the Girl have lined up a new album, Blue Reservoir. After returning from a 24-year break, in 2023, with Fuse, the duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt is back with 10 more originals, out February 19 via Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin Music Group. The announcement comes with new song “Young and Dumb” and a video directed by Edward Bishop from a treatment by the duo.
The video was shot at London venue Moth Club, where, last year, Thorn and Watt performed a residency that informed the direction of the new material. “There was an intensity and simplicity to the Moth shows that took us back to how we started out,” Thorn said in a press release. “Direct, rooted in guitar and voice, a few extra colors.”
Watt wrote and performed much of the album on a Spanish nylon-string guitar. “It is the sound of so much of the music I first connected with growing up, and I’d never actually owned one,” he said. “It became quite an emotional springboard for me. I found a voice I thought I’d lost.” Longtime collaborators Rex Horan and Evan Jenkins play double bass and drums, respectively, on Blue Reservoir, joined by percussionist Fabio de Oliveira.
