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The quote accompanying Love and Its Opposite is mildly terrifying. "When I was young, I imagined middle age to be a kind of comfort zone," says Thorn, "but in fact, having got here, I feel it's more of a war zone. The songs are where I dump all that s*** so that I can get on with my life without jumping off a bridge." And though this hardly qualifies as an inducement to listen, there's something delightfully honest about it. It's almost anti-press.
Such painfully spare sentiment is echoed in both the lyrics and the pared-down arrangements on Thorn's latest, on which she's worked with musicians as disparate as Hot Chip's Al Doyle, Swedish alt-pop's Jens Lekman and Nashville singer-songwriter Cortney Tidwell. But the Ewan Pearson-produced, back-to-basics approach does mean those honest lyrics stand out more, and seem even starker. On Singles Bar she asks, "Can you guess my age in this light?" over a simple, swaying twang, before revealing how she "laid on her back for a Hollywood wax". It might be that it's simply too honest for some.
But that's not to say Love and Its Opposite is all over-share. Lee Hazelwood cover Come on Home to Me has swirling atmospherics; there's a sort of triumphant sweetness to Long White Dress's acoustic melancholy; 60s handclaps inform the giddier Hormones; and there's even some bare electro-pop in the pulsing Why Does the Wind. Swimming proves to be the highlight, though, with its provocation to "go on" over a building accompaniment that swirls like the water Thorn's determined to wade through.
And through it all, there's That Voice–nobody else sounds like Thorn. When you're blessed with an instrument this pure, and this suited to melancholy, it's easy to see how the ex-Marine Girl might be headed for Pop Treasure status. Her enviable clarity of tone and the disarming beauty of her vocals lend Love and Its Opposite a dreamy, if uncomfortable, sort of truth. But blithe, sunny romantics are advised to keep a stiff drink (and a hanky) within very easy reach. --Wendy Roby
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'Love And It's Opposite' is the third studio release from singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn. Former member of Marine Girlsand Everything But The Girl, with husband Ben Watt, Thorn'sdistinctive pop vocal is accompanied by piano and soft strings on opening track 'Oh The Divorces'. The album features guest contributions from Hot Chip's Al Doyle and The Invisibles' Leo Taylor as well as covers of Lee Hazlewood's 'Come Home To Me' and 'You Are A Lover' by The Unbending Trees.
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