Tracey Thorn // Covers The xx On Her New EP // 01.11.11
In the summer of 2010, Mercury Prize winners The xx asked Tracey Thorn and her long-time musical partner Ben Watt (both of Everything But The Girl fame) to record a track from The xx’s debut album for a special compilation the band was commissioning of covers of the album’s songs by their favorite artists.
Unfortunately, the project fell apart a few months later for numerous logistical reasons but not before Tracey had sung a new version of one of the album’s most beautiful songs, ‘Night Time’.
The track gathered dust for a few months, but it is rightfully seeing the light of day on a new EP from Tracey Thorn called ‘Night Time’, to be released on Merge on November 1st.
Listen to The xx cover below:
Tracey Thorn – Night Time (The xx Cover) by MergeRecords
‘Night Time’ was handpicked by Tracey and features Ben guesting on guitars and backing vocals (it’s the first time the two have played together on a recording in over ten years) with the drums, programming, and mix coming courtesy of Tracey’s current production collaborator Ewan Pearson (producer of both Tracey’s recent acclaimed album ‘Love and Its Opposite’ and 2007’s ‘Out of the Woods’).
‘Swimming’, one of ‘Love and Its Opposite’s’ most popular tracks, is also revisited on this release. Ewan buffs up and re-edits last year’s remix by then-emerging-and-now-current dance producers du jour Visionquest (Detroit’s Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson, and Lee Curtiss). Meanwhile, UK underground house legend Charles Webster adds his magic to ‘Swimming’ too, with a beautifully percussive main mix and a rainy, autumnal dub.
Tracklisting:
1. Night Time
2. Swimming (Visionquest Remix, Ewan Pearson Re-Edit)
3. Swimming (Charles Webster Remix)
4. Swimming (Charles Webster Dub)
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