Tendance Everything But The Girl: Like The Deserts Miss The Rain [CD] NEUF

Tracks:
My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
Rollercoaster
Corcovado
Each And Every One
Before Today (Chicane Remix)
Mine
Protection
Single (Photek Remix)
Tracey In My Room (Lazy Dog Bootleg Vocal Mix)
Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
Almost Blue
No Differnece
Cross My Heart
Mirrorball
A Piece Of My Mind
Walking Wounded

Performer Notes:

• Initial pressings of LIKE THE DESERTS MISS THE RAIN included a disc of bonus material.
• Everything But The Girl: Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt.
• Additional personnel includes: Spring Heel Jack, Todd Terry, Photek, Massive Attack, Chicane.
• Producers include: Everything But The Girl, Ben Watt, Robin Millar, Nelle Hooper, Massive Attack.
• Personnel: Ben Watt (vocals, guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, sampler); Tracey Thorn (vocals); Nigel Nash, Peter King , Dick Pearce (horns); Cara Tivey (piano); Frank Ricotti (vibraphone, marimba); Bill Le Sage (vibraphone); Dave Mattacks, Rob Peters, Charlie Morgan (drums); Martin Ditcham (percussion); Spring Heel Jack (programming).
• Audio Mixers: Mark "Spike" Stent; Massive Attack; Nellee Hooper; Andy Bradfield; Spring Heel Jack; Ben Watt.
• Audio Remixers: Leo Elstob; Nick Bracegirdle; Photek; Sandy Rivera; Soul Vision.
• Photographers: Marcelo Krasilcic; Richard Haughton; Ben Watt.
• The first Everything but the Girl collection to effectively juggle the duos largely acoustic early recordings and more electronic later work (or to even make the attempt), Like the Deserts Miss the Rain is the perfect place for fans of either period to investigate their full career. Since their musical aesthetic rarely diverted from spare, elegant, melancholy pop (whether the instrumentation was a small group with horn chart or keyboards with beat-heavy rhythms), the disc flows smoothly from their 1996 drumnbass version of the Brazilian standard "Corcovado" (from Red Hot + Rio) to 1984s acoustic bossa "Each and Every One" to a Chicane remix of "Before Today." Another nice touch is including Tracey Thorns best outside appearance -- on Massive Attacks "Protection" -- and a pair of great songs from a 1993 single, including a startlingly effective version of Captain Beefhearts "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains." Similar to 2001s Home Movies collection, Like the Deserts Miss the Rain has a few surprising omissions (nothing from 1988s gorgeous Idlewild?) but does succeed in delivering great material from one of British pops most talented artists. ~ John Bush

Professional Reviews: Rolling Stone (4/17/03, p.109) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Thorn mulls, mopes and spins melancholy yarns with just a choice few words....Crying on the dance floor never sounded so good..."

Format: CD (1 Disc)

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Guest Artist: Spring Heel Jack; Todd Terry; Photek; Massive Attack; Chicane

Release Date: 28 October, 2002

Label: Virgin

Dimensions: 14.2 x 12.4 x 1 centimeters (0.06 kg)