Everything But The Girl – Temperamental: Half Speed Master (180g Vinyl 2LP)

180g Vinyl 2LP Reissue Half-Speed Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios

Everything But The Girl’s ninth and final studio album Temperamental was first released in September 1999, and is reissued here on 180g vinyl 2LP complete with half-speed mastering by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. The album debuted at No. 16 on the UK Album Chart and peaked at No. 3 in Australia and No. 65 on the US Billboard 200, and went on to sell over 500,000 copies worldwide. Often seen as a companion piece to its million-selling predecessor Walking Wounded, it once again skillfully merged worlds contemporary electronic dance music and smart singer-songwriting, but was not without its production difficulties.

Working from the same template as before, the album was largely recorded at home by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn in the summer of 1998 in familiar surroundings – synths, samplers, simple computer software, a microphone – with two tracks ending up as production collaborations: “Blame,” made with drum ‘n’ bass DJ-producer Jamie Spratling (J Majik) at his home studio in Hertfordshire; and “The Future of the Future,” which began life as an instrumental by Washington DC deep house producers, Deep Dish before Ben wrote a melody and lyrics for Tracey to sing.

LP1

1. Five Fathoms
2. Low Tide of the Night
3. Blame
4. Hatfield 1980
5. Temperamental

LP2

1. Compression
2. Downhill Racer
3. Lullaby of Clubland
4. No Difference
5. The Future of the Future (with Deep Dish)