Everything But the Girl Announce New Career Retrospective

More than 40 years after their debut single, a cover of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day,” Everything But the Girl are releasing a definitive “career best” compilation. Titled, appropriately enough, The Best of Everything But the Girl, the 16-track compilation highlights Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt’s origins as one of the leading lights of the early ’80s “sophisti-pop” movement as well as their eventual turn to sophisticated club and electronic music.

From the official announcement:

Spanning over forty years from their indie jazz-folk cult classic, “Night and Day,” to the acclaimed contemporary electronica of 2023’s Fuse, the 16-track capsule collection includes their biggest hits and deep evergreen cuts from a pioneering career.

“We always liked albums that had a fast side and a slow side,” says Tracey of the compilation’s running order, “so we thought we’d start with the bangers and wind down with the ballads.”

Upfront, the glimmering two-step of 2023’s “Nothing Left To Lose” sits among a clutch of 90s club-crossover hits — Todd Terry’s chart-topping remix of “Missing,” the dubby UK Top 10 breakbeat of “Walking Wounded,” and “Tracey In My Room” (Watt’s enduring dance-floor mash-up of EBTG’s “Wrong” and Soul Vision’s “Come Into My Room”).

“It also makes the album run backwards in time,” says Ben. “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 (‘Run a Red Light’) with how we started (‘Night and Day’).”

Here’s the tracklist:

The Best of Everything But the Girl will be released by Buzzin’ Fly/Chrysalis on November 14, 2025 (pre-order your copy).

Watch Everything But the Girl perform “Before Today” and “Missing” in this 1996 performance on The White Room.