615 Everything but the Girl - Idlewild

In February of 1988 Everything but the Girl released their 4th
studio album. Tracey Thorn: "I am writing songs, though; lyrics
that are more like short stories than pop lyrics. Perhaps they
ought to be short stories. They don’t really have choruses. Maybe
I’m just not very good at choruses. Ben is experimenting with
synths and keyboards. He buys a drum machine and starts getting
into the finer details of how to programme it. I don’t know how to
operate the drum machine, or how to turn the synths on, and I’m not
bothered enough to learn. There is some disagreement about what our
next record should sound like. We keep changing our minds. I still
write all my songs on a guitar or at the piano, and so when I play
them they sound a bit like my songs have always sounded. But Ben is
writing songs with a more modern sound, using his new synths and
the drum machine, and I like these too. We veer between these two
possible extremes before making a record, Idlewild, which
incorporates a bit of both. Maybe it’s another ‘bizarre hybrid’"
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