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Everything But The Girl / Eden and Amplified Heart CD reissues

Classic albums back on CD with extra tracks

By Jamie Atkins

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Everything But The Girl have announced expanded CD editions of two of their key albums – their 1984 debut Eden and the million-selling Amplified Heart (1994) – for release this April.

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt met while studying at the University of Hull in 1981. Thorn had already formed the DIY post-punk group Marine Girls and recorded their beloved debut album Beach Party. Meanwhile, experimental singer-songwriter Watt’s debut single – ‘Cant’, produced by Kevin Coyne – was released that year on Cherry Red. The pair started a side project, Everything But The Girl, and released their first EP, ‘Night And Day’ (led by a cover of the Cole Porter standard) in 1982.

After a couple of years pursuing their respective solo projects, Thorn and Watt came together again in 1984 for their debut full-length, Eden, a timeless set of plaintive bossa nova (No 28 single ‘Each And Every One’), shimmering indie-pop (‘Another Bridge’), wee-small-hours jazz (‘Crabwalk’) and more.

Fast-forward a decade and the pair’s seventh album, Amplified Heart, documented the aftermath of Watt’s near-death experience with the rare autoimmune disease Churg-Strauss syndrome. The album’s frank and raw explorations of love and relationships were set to a stripped-back, folk-rock sound (Danny Thompson was on bass; Richard Thompson guested on lead guitar on ‘25th December’), flecked with subtle electronic flourishes. On release, Amplified Heart struggled to make an impact and EBTG looked set to be dropped by their label. But when the album’s second single, ‘Missing’ was remixed by house producer Todd Terry, it became a worldwide hit (No 3 in the UK, No 2 in the US), giving Amplified Heart a new lease of life and the band belated mainstream success.

The 2026 Eden deluxe edition features 26 tracks on one CD

For these new reissues, Eden and Amplified Heart have not been remastered they use the same Miles Showell mastering from the previous reissues. In terms of bonus tracks, the contents are similar to the increasingly pricey reissues from the early 2010s Edsel campaign, with slight differences. The new-look, single CD Eden includes all of the B-sides and home demos from its 2012 reissue but omits the four BBC session tracks and adds their 1983 version of The Jam’s ‘English Rose’, originally recorded for the NME’s Racket Packet cassette.

Meanwhile, Amplified Heart is a 2CD set which, again, includes the B-sides and demos from its previous expanded reissue. It also includes two live tracks which appeared on that 2013 set – ‘Walking To You’ and ‘25th December’, both recorded at a 1994 Toronto gig – but appears to feature a further three previously unreleased live tracks. And while the 2013 set added four remixes of ‘Missing’, the new set only includes two but adds a ‘Rollercoaster’ remix.

Both reissues will come in six-panel digisleeve packaging and will include a 20-page booklet and are released on 3 April 2026 via Chrysalis.

Tracklisting

Eden Everything But The Girl /

      1. Each And Every One
      2. Bittersweet
      3. Tender Blue
      4. Another Bridge
      5. The Spice Of Life
      6. The Dustbowl
      7. Crabwalk
      8. Even So
      9. Frost And Fire
      10. Fascination
      11. I Must Confess
      12. Soft Touch
      Bonus tracks
      1. English Rose
      2. Laugh You Out Of The House
      3. Never Could Have Been Worse
      4. Mine
      5. Gun Cupboard Love
      6. Easy As Sin
      7. Native Land
      8. Riverbed Dry
      9. Don’t You Go
      10. Each And Every One (Home Demo 1983)
      11. Bittersweet (Home Demo 1983)
      12. Even So (Home Demo 1983)
      13. Frost And Fire (Home Demo 1983)
      14. Soft Touch (Home Demo 1983)

Tracklisting

Amplified Heart Everything But The Girl / 2CD deluxe

    • CD 1
      1. Rollercoaster
      2. Troubled Mind
      3. I Don’t Understand Anything
      4. Walking To You
      5. Get Me
      6. Missing
      7. Two Star
      8. We Walk The Same Line
      9. 25th December
      10. Disenchanted
      DEMOS (1992-1993)
      1. I Don’t Understand Anything
      2. Rollercoaster
      3. Two Star
      4. Troubled Mind
      5. We Walk The Same Line
      6. Richard Says
      7. Back At Square One
      8. Two Star (Harry Robinson’s String Arrangement)
    • CD 2
      B-SIDES (1994)
      1. Straight Back To You
      2. Lights Of Te Touan
      3. These Days (Live)
      4. Each And Every One (Live)
      5. I Don’t Want To Talk About It (Live)
      LIVE
      1. Rollercoaster (Toronto, 1994)
      2. Troubled Mind (Toronto, 1994)
      3. Walking To You (Toronto, 1994)
      4. 25th December (Toronto, 1994)
      5. Missing (London, 1997)
      REMIXES
      1. Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix, Radio Edit) x
      2. Missing (Ultramarine Remix) x
      3. Rollercoaster (King Britt Scuba Ambient Mix)

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