Above: Tracey, photographed in North London, Feb 2010. Pic by Edward Bishop.
Hello . . .
"Hello everyone. All my latest news, music and stuff is here. My brand new album called 'Love And Its Opposite' came out on May 17. It's on my partner Ben Watt's Strange Feeling Records - sister imprint to his Buzzin' Fly label. In North America it's out on the very lovely Merge Records. I'm also chatting daily with fans on my Facebook and Twitter pages, so come and say hello. Nice to be back."
Love Tracey xox
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// 20 July 2010: 19h48 GMT // Free remix of 'Kentish Town' We thought you'd all like one of the new remixes from the upcoming 'Opposites EP' for free to get you in the mood before release in August. The EP will carry remixes by Blue Daisy, Visionquest (Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson and Lee Curtiss) and Kompakt's WALLS (pic above). So here is 'Kentish Town' remixed by WALLS for you. Have fun, and get your friends to post it on their blogs if you like. Free download
// 08 July 2010: 21h08 GMT // US mid-year lists show Tracey love Both Amazon and Spin in the US are showing 'Love And Its Opposite' some serious mid-year love with the album popping up in both the Amazon Editors' Top 50 Of 2010 So Far and the Spin.com Top 20 of The Year So Far. The Spin list will be published shortly. Meantime here is the album at Number 13 with the Amazon folk as reprinted by Stereogum. Amazon Editors' Top 50 Of 2010 So Far
// 28 June 2010: 21h08 GMT // Tracey chats to Philip Sherburne at Beatportal Nice interview with Tracey over at Beatportal as she chats to ace techno writer Philip Sherburne about her new album and the current release of remixes Read it
// 17 June 2010: 11h08 GMT // Tracey session and interview on NPR's World Café today Today in the US, NPR broadcast the live World Café session and interview Tracey recorded for them a few weeks ago at George Martin's Air studios in London via a live ISDN link to the States. Four songs (including a very old song from here first album), chat and a 'special guest' on guitar. More info
// 15 June 2010: 17h45 GMT // Deal Of The Week at Amazon for UK fans If you live in the UK, Amazon is doing a 'Deal of the Week' on 'Love And Its Opposite'. Currently selling at only £6.93 See Amazon page
// 14 June 2010: 19h25 GMT // New 'At Home' filmed performance premiered today 'Why Does The Wind?', Tracey's new single, as performed by Tracey with Ewan Pearson and Ben Watt in an 'up-close' performance filmed at home, was premiered on UK music website Drowned In Sound today. Check it out.
// 14 June 2010: 11h26 GMT // New single with ace remixes out today 'Why Does The Wind?', Tracey's new single, is released as a single today with fab remixes by Metro Area's Morgan Geist, Michel Cleis and André Lodemann on limited edition 12" vinyl and download. We've got preview audio, DJ reactions and links to buy.
// 3 June 2010: 13h56 GMT // Exclusive behind-the-scenes New York pics Tracey was recently the subject of a feature in the esteemed US weekly, The New Yorker. The feature carried a pic of Tracey in the doorway of Brooklyn bar, Henry Public snapped by Eric Odgen exclusively for the mag. What the mag didn't show was some of the set-ups that weren't used. Here are some behind-the-scenes pics snapped by Ben Watt including a crazy Tim Burton-esque forest-in-twilight backdrop that was rigged on the hot sidewalk in full sunshine! Check the pics here.
// 28 May 2010: 21h24 GMT // More features - The Guardian, Huffington Post More extensive features with Tracey this week, including a joing interview with husband Ben Watt for The Guardian and one for the Huffington Post.
// 20 May 2010: 14h14 GMT // Live at home performance of 'Late In The Afternoon' Here is another live performance from Tracey captured at home. Filmed and recorded in the home studio earlier this year it is a stripped back version of 'Late In The Afternoon' featuring Tracey (vocals, acoustic guitar), Ewan Pearson (drum programming, synth) and guest Ben Watt (electric guitar). The original is on Tracey's new album 'Love And Its Opposite'.
// 19 May 2010: 16h54 GMT // Radio radio. Tracey blitzes UK airwaves Tonight you can catch Tracey in three places on UK radio. Between 6pm-6.30pm she chats live on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Drivetime show. At 10.30pm she is on Strand, the arts programme on BBC World Service, and then after 11pm she is on John Kennedy's Xposure show on XFM (includes a 3-track live session for the show!). You can also catch a replay of the 50-minute special interview with her and partner Ben Watt on Gideon Coe's BBC 6Music show from last night.
// 17 May 2010: 16h04 GMT // *Sound of fanfare* Tracey's album out this week Check out a full audio preview, video of her live on LATER, reviews, & 1-click buy links, for the new album 'Love And Its Opposite' here
// 13 May 2010: 17h54 GMT // Morgan Geist among remixers of 'Why Does The Wind?' 'Why Does The Wind?' will be the second single taken from 'Love And Its Opposite' and will be released on June 14. Dance remixes come courtesy of Metro Area's Morgan Geist (pic above), Michel Cleis and André Lodemann. The release will be slid across to Strange Feeling's sister label, Buzzin' Fly (for the world ex-North America) and pressed up on limited 12" vinyl. Download too. Merge will release the single digitally Stateside.
// 11 May 2010: 15h19 GMT // Tracey recording performance for BBC2's LATER today Tracey is down at the BBC TV Centre recording a performance of 'Oh, The Divorces!' with a string quartet for BBC2's LATER with Jools Holland today. It will form part of this Friday night's extended broadcast of the show at around 11.30pm. Please take note: In spite of what some newspapers say today she will NOT be playing it on the abbreviated live version of the show that goes out tonight at 10pm because it was too long for the 28 minute show!
// 10 May 2010: 16h46 GMT // Preview whole album this week courtesy of The Guardian and NPR Both leading UK broadsheet The Guardian and top US public radio network NPR preview the whole of Tracey's album this week. Check out The Guardian's Music Blog Preview and NPR's 'First Listen'
// 06 May 2010: 09h26 GMT // Tracey chats to Subba Cultcha Another interview with Tracey this week, this time with ace music website Subba Cultcha.
// 03 May 2010: 21h16 GMT // Album demos to be released as bonus tracks Strange Feeling is releasing 5 album demos ('The Berlin Sessions') as bonus trax to go with the new album. In the UK, fans can pre-order them as a limited edition bonus disc bundled with the album ONLY from HMV.co.uk. In the US, Merge Records release them DIGITALLY thru iTunes on pre-sale only. Japan and Taiwan will also be releasing 'The Berlin Demos' domestically on bonus CD. Also, look out for another extra track, Tracey's cover of Ron Sexsmith's 'Child Star' (available from UK iTunes & US Amazon MP3). For fans in other countries, Strange Feeling is hoping to have 'The Berlin Sessions' available on a limited separate CD through the Buzzin' Fly Online Shop (with international shipping) a couple of weeks after release.
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MUSIC & DOWNLOADS / /
// Tracey's new album 'Love And Its Opposite' is released on May 17 (May 18 Nth America), but to keep you going until then you can download the album's opening track, 'Oh, The Divorces!' or an edit of the single 'Why Does The Wind?' for FREE now. Grab free 'Oh, The Divorces!' or Grab free 'Why Does The Wind?'
// Did you know you can put these Soundcloud audio players (below) on your own blog or website? Simply click on the photo to play the music, then click on the 'Share' button and grab the code, or post to your fave social network. (You can have it with or without the artwork, in small or large sizes).
// Fill your ears with Tracey's fab January Spotify mixtape which is, in her own words, "just a few bits and pieces I like, mostly old stuff, a bit random".
ON TOUR / /
Tracey will not be playing live or touring with 'Love And Its Opposite' but we have filmed and recorded live 'at home' performances from February 2010 that are now being shown on this website.
