The Best Of Everything But The Girl

Everything But The Girl are to release a new career-spanning compilation on their own Buzzin’ Fly label in November.

The Best Of comes as a single CD or 2LP vinyl (with audio newly mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios) and features songs from 1982’s ‘Night And Day’ (standalone debut single) to ‘Nothing Left To Lose’ and ‘Run A Red Light’ from in 2023. It’s their first such compilation since 1996’s identically titled The Best Of, which is now updated to include songs from 1999’s Temperamental, 2023’s comeback album Fuse, the mash-up single ‘Tracey In My Room’ from 2002 remix compilation Like The Deserts Miss The Rain and their cover of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s ‘Corcovado’ from 1996 charity compilation Red Hot + Rio, later released as a single in 2002. The duo’s first singles compilation, Home Movies: The Best Of, reached No 5 in 1993.

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt explained The Best Of is designed to start with their clubbier songs, before ending on their more contemplative work. Thorn said: “We always liked albums that had a fast side and a slow side, so we thought we’d start with the bangers and wind down with the ballads.”

Watt added: “It also makes the album run backwards in time. It gives you a sense of clubland back to bedsit, a journey that to us feels very real. And at the end, we pair the modern-day in Run A Red Light, with how we started on Night And Day.”

Songs missing from the compilation include their Top 20 version of Mickey And Sylvia’s ‘Love Is Strange’ from 1992’s Covers. The only song from Temperamental is the album track ‘No Difference’, with that album’s singles ‘The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)’, ‘Five Fathoms (Love More)’ and the title track all absent. Similarly, there are no songs from their second or sixth albums, Love Not Money and Worldwide.

After releasing Like The Deserts Miss The Rain, Thorn and Watt focused on their family and respective solo careers, before returning with Fuse 21 years later. They have since resumed playing live, albeit in a low-key fashion, with a five-night residency in June at the 300-capacity London Moth Club, where they also played earlier this month.

The Best Of is released on 14 November 2025, via Buzzin’ Fly/Chrysalis.

Pre-order The Best Of formats from the official EBTG shop

• 2LP gatefold vinyl with OBI strip (£27.99)
• CD edition with OBI strip (£12.99)
• Vinyl + CD bundle (£39.99)

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Tracklisting

The Best Of Everything But The Girl /

• • CD or 2LP
    1. Missing (Todd Terry Remix) (from Amplified Heart)
    2. Nothing Left To Lose (from Fuse)
    3. Tracey In My Room (Lazy Dog Bootleg Vocal Mix) (from Like The Deserts Miss The Rain)
    4. Walking Wounded (from Walking Wounded)
    5. Single (from Walking Wounded)
    6. Corcovado (from Red Hot + Rio)
    7. Before Today (from Walking Wounded)
    8. No Difference (from Temperamental)
    9. Driving (from The Language Of Life)
    10. Each And Every One (from Eden)
    11. Rollercoaster (from Amplified Heart)
    12. I Don’t Want To Talk About It (from Idlewild)
    13. The Only Living Boy In New York (from Home Movies: The Best Of)
    14. Cross My Heart (from Baby, The Stars Shine Bright)
    15. Run A Red Light (from Fuse)
    16. Night And Day (standalone 1982 single)