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- Summary: The first full-length studio release in over 20 years from Everything But The Girl was self-produced by the duo.
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- Record Label: Verve
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 19
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Mixed: 5 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Apr 21, 2023It’s an album that makes a church of its elegant electronica: all vaulting arcs of yearning melody and glimmers of stained glass that dance upwards, to the familiar urban spire of Thorn’s beautiful, hangdog voice.
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Apr 21, 2023Like all of the group’s recordings, the songs transcend the sound, and “Fuse” finds this veteran group as vital as ever.
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Apr 18, 2023No more the quieter introspection and reflection of solo tracks like Hormones or Fever Dream – here Thorn and Watt are a combined force, capturing the giddy euphoria and release of the club experience.
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Apr 21, 2023Ben Watt’s restrained piano and taut, anxiety-laden synths hang back so Thorn can carry the weight. She’s more than up to the task – her voice now fuller, deeper, enriched by experience, and perfectly suited to narrations about seeking light in the darkness.
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Apr 21, 2023Although the tone can get a little one-note, this personal and cultural lineage deepens the poignancy of Fuse, in which Thorn and Watt broadly consider what we lose and hold on to over the course of a lifetime.
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May 1, 2023Fuse lands as a welcome sampler of the Everything But the Girl sound updated to the ‘20s, but not quite the powerhouse comeback they are so clearly capable of.
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Apr 27, 2023Ultimately, the record just sounds comically one-paced and disappointingly stale. As I said, Thorn’s voice is lovely, some of the little stories are smartly narrated, but it’s just nowhere near enough.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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