A Distant Shore

A Distant Shore Artist: Tracey Thorn
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 711297540123
EAN: 0711297540123
ASIN: B00005EBOK


Release Date: 2001-05-08

A Distant Shore


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Tracks:

  1. Small Town Girl
  2. Simply Wouldn't Care
  3. Seascape
  4. Femme Fatale
  5. Dreamy
  6. Grain Sailing
  7. New Opened Eyes
  8. Too Happy

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Distant shore within.......2001-09-21

I was paralyzed when i first heard her deeply melancholic voice in "better things" of Massive attack. This cd has accompanied an important period in my life.
In this cd tracey's soul is accompanied with a solo guitar. She takes you to a 30 min journey down to your deepest chambers of your soul. But this journey in autumn is to a distant shore to which not everyone would dare. This is certainly an excellent album for those who wish to shed light on the dark side of their souls.

4 out of 5 stars No masterpiece, but still worthwhile.......2001-07-03

It's hard not to listen to Ms. Thorn's 1982 EP without thinking of her in Everything But The Girl. In these eight early songs, there are hints of the retro feel of some EBTG music (in her jaunty cover of the VU classic "femme fatale," and in the breezy Bacharachian feel of "Dreamy"). Since it's just Tracey singing with her own guitar as accompaniment, I was also struck by her skills as a guitar player. I already knew she could do more than just sing after seeing EBTG live a few years ago, but her guitar work on this CD is solid throughout. None of these tunes approaches the level of her best work with Ben Watt in EBTG, but some of them are still quite good.

5 out of 5 stars

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