Tracey Thorn Music

Origin: Hull, England

Decades: 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's

One of the most enduring English singer/songwriters since the early '80s, Tracey Thorn began making music with the all-female quartet Marine Girls, a minimalist pop group that released a pair of albums -- Beach Party and Lazy Ways -- inspired by Young Marble Giants and the Raincoats. She recorded A Distant Shore, a relatively moody, if similarly skeletal solo album, for Cherry Red in 1983, and around that time she met Ben Watt -- who was also signed to Cherry Red -- and formed a partnership as Everything Bu... Read More