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The definitive compilation from Everything But The Girl, the bestselling duo formed in 1982 by English singer-writer-musicians Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn - spanning over 40 years from their indie jazz-folk debut "Night and Day", to the acclaimed contemporary electronica of 2023's UK Top 3 album, Fuse. 

The collection includes the 1995 global dancefloor anthem, "Missing" (Todd Terry Remix), hit singles "I Don't Want To Talk About It", "Walking Wounded", and "Each and Every One", and depp everygreen cuts from their prioneering career. 

Features audio newly mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. — (via Label)

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The compilation album features 16 tracks, reflecting the duo's journey from guitar-led acoustic jazz-folk to alternative electronica and dance, a trajectory that culminated to some of the most recognisable remixes of the 1990s. 

Taking music from a 40 year period, the track list includes 2023's single "Nothing Left To Lose", taken from their most recent studio album, Fuse, and club anthems like Todd Terry's legendary 1994 remix of "Missing". UK Top 10 single "Walking Wounded" also features, as well as tracks like 'Before Today' and 'I Don't Want To Talk About It'. Their cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy In New York" also features.

"We always liked albums that had a fast side and a slow side," said vocalist Tracey Thorn. "So we thought we’d start with the bangers and wind down with the ballads."  — (via DJ Mag)

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Everything But The Girl released a new career-spanning compilation on their own Buzzin’ Fly label in November 2025.

The Best Of comes as a 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. 

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.  — (via Super Deluxe Edition)

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Label: Buzzin' Fly Records / Chrysalis
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Gatefold
Released: 2025
Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Folk
Style: Indie Pop, Trip Hop

File under: Alternative / Indie / Pop
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