Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt: Everything but the grief

They wrote sad songs, survived serious illness and fell out of love with pop. Now Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt are backIf all you knew of Tracey Thorn was her music, you might think she had spent the last 30 years being squeezed through the emotional wringer. Her voice is an instrument of exquisite dolour, and her acutely observed songs dwell on relationships in their terminal phase, or in the scorched aftermath. On Everything But the Girl's 1995 hit Missing, she sang of haunting a former lover's...

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