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Release Date Friday 3rd April 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
First released in 1984, Eden is the acclaimed debut album from Everything
But The Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singer-writermusicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 26-track deluxe
CD reissue edition featuring additional B-sides and extra tracks
Recorded and mixed over nine days in September 1983 and produced by Robin Millar,
Eden spawned the UK Top 40 hit Each And Every One and went on to sell over half a
million copies worldwide.
Thorn and Watt met at Hull University in 1981 and over the next two years became
successful solo artists and songwriters on London indie Cherry Red. Eden signalled a
major label move to Blanco Y Negro/ Warner and is the merging of the pair's
respective worlds. Thorn's unshowy soulful voice and Watt's jazz-folk guitar and latinflavoured arrangements take centre stage. The sound is sharpened by lyrics that offer
both acerbic takedowns and a bittersweet disarming intimacy.
The album features a handpicked band including Simon Booth (Weekend, Working
Week) on additional guitar, Colombian double- bassist Chucho Merchan, Brazilian
percussionist Bosco D'Oliveira, veteran alto saxophonist Peter King, and Charles
Hayward from experimental London futurists, This Heat, on drums.
Some B- sides from the time were recorded shortly after the Eden sessions. Later
tracks from the same year point towards the tighter pop sound the pair were to
develop both on the road and on the follow-up album. June Miles-Kingston (Modettes,
Fun Boy Three) joins on drums, Phil Moxham (Young Marble Giants) on electric bass,
and Johnny Marr guests on harmonica on Native Land.
The running order follows the template of the last deluxe edition in 2012, but - with the
master tape only recently unearthed - adds the duo's 1983 version of Paul Weller's
English Rose, originally recorded for the NME's Racket Packet cassette.
Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, the album features the original
artwork by Jane Fox in a new layout by John Gilsenan at IWant Design, with full lyrics,
credits and photos from the period.
Tracks: Each And Every One / Bittersweet / Tender Blue / Another Bridge / The Spice
Of Life / The Dustbowl / Crabwalk / Even So / Frost And Fire / Fascination / I Must
Confess / Soft Touch / English Rose BONUS TRACK / Laugh You Out Of The House
BONUS TRACK / Never Could Have Been Worse BONUS TRACK / Mine BONUS
TRACK / Gun Cupboard Love BONUS TRACK / Easy As Sin BONUS TRACK / Native
Land BONUS TRACK / Riverbed Dry BONUS TRACK / Don’t You Go BONUS
TRACK / Each And Every One (Home Demo 1983) BONUS TRACK / Bittersweet
(Home Demo 1983) BONUS TRACK / Even So (Home Demo 1983) BONUS TRACK /
Frost And Fire (Home Demo 1983) BONUS TRACK / Soft Touch (Home Demo 1983)
BONUS TRACK
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