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  • Summary: The collection of songs from The Everything But The Girl singer's solo career also features remixes and collaborations with such artist as Massive Attack, Morgan Geist, and Tevo Howard.
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Oh, The Divorces!
Who's next? Who's next? Always the ones the ones that you least expect They seem so strong It turned out she wanted more all along And each time I... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Uncut
    Dec 23, 2015
    80
    Caroline's 2CD sampler of her moonlighting efforts features charming interludes from past lives. [Nov 2015, p.96]
  2. Dec 14, 2015
    80
    This new compilation focuses on projects she released under her own name plus sundry collaborations, remixes and assorted feature spots. Above all else, this 34-track assemblage highlights the fact that Thorn’s trajectory has been an unpredictable and surprising one.
  3. Dec 14, 2015
    80
    It's on the 'Disco Queen' side that Thorn's voice really shines through, with both Geist's mix of 'Why Does The Wind' and Escort's extended remix of 'It's All True' being as good as anything Todd Terry did to EBTG back in the 90s.
  4. Dec 14, 2015
    70
    Thorn’s ability to craft a full character portrait from just a few lines is starkest on the tracks from her 2010 album, “Love and Its Opposite.”
  5. Dec 14, 2015
    60
    Disc 2 is a largely inessential collection of insipid dance remixes and the Massive Attack tracks. Disc 1 is a succinct summation of Thorn’s doleful, soulful voice and writing career that gives balm and bathos to those on the sidelines that, through their bruisings, let the brasher, flasher and more empty briefly succeed, but through doing so endure and become stronger in themselves.
  6. Q Magazine
    Dec 14, 2015
    60
    Chronological sequencing would have painted a more coherent picture of how she developed over the decades and although fine in themselves, a bunch of remixes belong to an album of their own. [Jan 2016, p.120]