Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl

...I know of, and although Walking Wounded is a good 6 years old now, the band have actually been going since during the early 80s. Adept vocalist Tracey Thorn and musician/song writer Ben Watt formed EBTG, all be it for a brief spell, in 1982. The pair were both pursuing solo careers at the time when they met at university and didn't really get it together as an act until the release of their first album in 1984. At the time, the band were pretty ...
...of the decade. Walking Wounded, an odd combination of drum 'n bass and RnB followed later on that year, so would it shape up against the huge single release that had given it such large expectation? -- Before today -- … Well, no, is the answer I'm afraid. The album starts off well enough with the mellow drum 'n base track Before Today. Well in fairness it has the tempo and the bass to qualify it as drum 'mn bass but there's still the strong melodic ...

craiggy_boy 02.08.2002 · Read full review
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...if slightly depressing, lyrics. With Walking Wounded, Tracey and Ben have moved to more of an electronic feeling in their music. It took Radiohead till their fourth album to go all wibbely-wobbely and bleep-bleepish. Everything But The Girl managed to troop through over a decade - well, fourteen years, actually, before selling themselves out to the demon god of drum-and-bass beats. Fourteen years without even a single mention in the dubious DJ magazines. ...
...they did it with a bang, albiet a rather mellow, slightly depressed bang. This album is an amazing journey in to the emotional side of electronic music. This album combines the electronic strands of drum and bass, techno, jungle and house, but any shortfallings in the scratches and whizzes are paid back by the beautiful lyrics. This album is also good for those disbelievers outthere who think that dance music is all 'bleep bleep boom boom', and ...

bigbtommy 25.03.2003 · Read full review
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...their eight studio Album entitled Walking Wounded. From the very introduction it is apparent that the success of Missing has steered the duo towards the bright lights and pound signs of the dancefloor. This Album is full of strange experimental noises and sounds created from a whole plethora different instruments. The Album contains 11 tracks as below: Before Today Wrong Single The Heart Remains A Child Walking Wounded Flipside Big Deal ...
...don't you love me?" Walking Wounded, the title track off this Album was also released as the first single from the Album, and gave us a taster of what we could expect. In my opinion this is a very clever song and has an erratic electronic tempo that is accompanied by Tracey's haunting voice. I can't help thinking that this song is a deliberate attempt to make a statement that even techno dance tunes should have deep meaningful lyrics. Flipside ...

micksheff 23.11.2006 · Read full review
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