Tracey Thorn – A Distant Shore expanded 12" vinyl LP album cover

Tracey Thorn - A Distant Shore (Expanded 12" Vinyl Edition)

$65.00 AUD

12" Vinyl · Expanded Edition

Just a voice and a semi-acoustic guitar, and nothing else needed. Recorded in a garden shed for next to nothing, wintry and unguarded. Every line lands closer than you expect it to. A quiet cornerstone of British indie that still stops the room forty years on.

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Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

A Distant Shore was Tracey Thorn's debut solo album, released on Cherry Red in September 1982 while she was a nineteen-year-old student at Hull University. Recorded for a reported £138, it strips everything back to her voice and semi-acoustic guitar, a stark, minimal record made during a fertile stretch when she was also playing in The Marine Girls and about to begin her lifelong partnership with Ben Watt in Everything But The Girl. Its quiet, melodic melancholy set it apart, and it lingered on the UK Independent Chart for months to become one of Cherry Red's defining releases. This 2024 expanded edition, freshly remastered at Abbey Road Studios with new sleeve notes by Tracey, adds five previously unreleased demos hand-picked from her cassette archive: "Lucky Day," cut at the original album sessions, plus four songs later re-recorded for Everything But The Girl's debut, Eden.

Tracklist.

Side A:

  1. Small Town Girl
  2. Simply Couldn't Care
  3. Seascape
  4. Femme Fatale
  5. Dreamy
  6. Plain Sailing

Side B:

  1. New Opened Eyes
  2. Too Happy
  3. Lucky Day (Demo)
  4. Another Bridge (Demo)
  5. Even So (Demo)
  6. The Spice Of Life (Demo)
  7. Fascination (Demo)
Pressing details.
Format
1LP
Sleeve

Standard sleeve

Vinyl colour

Black

Label
Cherry Red
Catalogue number
BRED875
Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Care and packaging.

All records are handled minimally and shipped factory sealed to preserve condition. Orders are packed in purpose-built LP mailers and dispatched within one to two business days.
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