Everything But The Girl announce new album

## Blue Reservoir is the 11th studio album from Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt

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Everything But The Girl have announced details of their new album, _Blue Reservoir_.

The best-selling UK duo’s highly anticipated new release is out on 19 February 2027 via Buzzin’ Fly through Virgin Music Group and will be Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt’s 11th studio album.

Inspired by the pair’s unexpected and unconventional return to live performance in 2025 – a long-running sold-out residency (with thousands each night on the wait list) at Hackney’s intimate 300-capacity MOTH Club – the album sees the duo put aside the sharply-lit electronica of 2023’s acclaimed comeback album, _Fuse_, and lean into some of their foundational influences and ideas.

“There was an intensity and simplicity to the MOTH shows that took us back to how we started out,” says Thorn. “Direct, rooted in guitar and voice, a few extra colours. We hadn’t been in that world for a long time and it just felt fresh and real.”

Uplifted, Watt bought a Spanish nylon-string guitar in January 2026 to write and perform on. “It is the sound of so much of the music I first connected with growing up, and I’d never actually owned one. It became quite an emotional springboard for me. I found a voice I thought I’d lost.”

The album’s first single _Young And Dumb_ and accompanying music video (treatment by Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, directed by Edward Bishop) is out now. Watch below:

#### Song-Driven Storytelling

The music came together in a creative burst in the first few weeks of 2026. If the results (nine written on guitar, one on piano) draw on Watt’s signature Latin-influenced lyricism, British folk-blues improvisation and song-driven storytelling, the lyrics (six by Thorn, three by Watt, one co-write) look forward and back through time, part-conversational, part-allusive, carried throughout by Thorn’s richly original autumnal voice, Watt’s soft counterpoint and the pair’s unadorned harmonies.

The album of 10 original songs was recorded largely live at RAK Studios in London over ten days in July 2026. Watt’s guitars – both nylon-strung rhythm and electric lead – are augmented by long-standing collaborators Rex Horan (double bass) and Evan Jenkins (drums). The percussionist is Fabio de Oliveira (Babo Moreno), son of Brazilian percussion legend Bosco de Oliveira – a central figure on Thorn and Watt’s influential debut album, Eden in 1984. The pair’s own son, Blake Watt (Family Stereo / Bella Union), part of the MOTH club line-up, guests on two songs. Additional overdubs (harmonium, celesta, tape loop atmospheres) were recorded by Watt at the duo’s home studio in north London.

_Blue Reservoir_ is written, arranged and produced by Everything But The Girl, and recorded and mixed by Bruno Ellingham – engineer on albums by the pair, both solo and as a duo, for over 15 years. Mastering is by Miles Showell at Abbey Road. Artwork by John Gilsenan at IWANT Design.

#### Blue Reservoir Tracklisting

Forward
Scala
Young and Dumb
Do What You Can
Christmas Gone
Courage Mon Brave
The Round and Round
Fork in the Road
Good Hope
The Great Unknown

On the live front, over the next few weeks the pair extend their run of sold-out intimate MOTH Club shows (30 full houses since April 2025), with three more at the MOTH and two at Union Chapel, and in 2027 add regional shows for the first time. Billed not as Everything But The Girl but as ‘Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn’ for set list flexibility, the performances feature songs from their years both as a duo and as solo artists, plus covers and wild cards.

#### Upcoming Tour Dates (as Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn)

2026London – Union Chapel, 29 Nov – Sold Out
London – Union Chapel, 30 Nov – Sold Out
London – MOTH Club, 13 Dec – Sold Out
London – MOTH Club, 14 Dec – Sold Out
London – MOTH Club, 15 Dec – Sold Out

2027London – Union Chapel, 21 May – On sale Oct 30
London – Union Chapel, 22 May – On sale Oct 30
Bristol – St George’s, 25 May – On sale Oct 30
Manchester – Albert Hall, 26 May – On sale Oct 30

To pre-order Blue Reservoir click here

Featured image credit: Edward Bishop

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