Everything But The Girl - Blue Reservoir (Vinyl LP Translucent Blue)

Blue Reservoir is the new studio album from Everything But The Girl, the duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, and a turn back towards the guitar and voice pop and folk of their earliest records.

It grew out of their return to live performance in 2025, a run of sold-out shows at London’s 300-capacity MOTH Club, their first gigs in a quarter of a century. Thorn has said the directness of those nights took them back to how they started out.

After those shows, Watt bought a Spanish nylon-string guitar, which became central to the writing. Nine of the ten songs were written on guitar and one on piano, drawing on Latin music and English folk.

The duo recorded it largely live over ten days at London’s RAK Studios in July 2026, with long-time collaborators Rex Horan on double bass and Evan Jenkins on drums, alongside Brazilian percussionist Fabio de Oliveira. Their son, Blake Watt, appears on two songs. First single ‘Young And Dumb’ looks back at the reckless younger self we all leave behind.

It follows 2023’s Fuse, which brought them back after a 24-year recording break with sharper, electronic textures.

This edition is an indie exclusive pressing on 180g translucent blue vinyl.

For the other side of the duo, Walking Wounded from 1996 and Temperamental from 1999 are the records that took them into electronic and dance music.