Review: Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn 'Out of the Woods': Aidin Vaziri | Tracey Thorn has the kind of dusky voice that can stop time, so it's almost easy to forgive her for taking the past seven years off since her last CD with Everything But the Girl. On "Out of the Woods," the singer's first solo album since 1982's "A Distant Shore," she more than makes up for the wait with her breathtaking mix of delicate folk melodies, sleek electro-funk flourishes and skittery, hair-raising soul. Working with the Rapture's Gabe Andruzzi and remixer Ewan Pearson, Thorn delivers an album that's as adventurous as it is evocative, nowhere more so than on the single "It's All True," a pristine love song set to a neon '80s soundtrack. But for sheer chills, it's hard to beat "Hands Up to the Ceiling," in which she sings of finding solace from the world outside by sneaking off to the attic to listen to Terry Hall, Siouxsie Sioux and "Edwin, too." Haven't we all been there?
posted by Aidin at Sunday, April 08, 2007
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