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Love and Its Opposite
Studio album by Tracey Thorn
Released	17 May 2010
Recorded	2009
Genre	Pop/Dance/Electronica
Label	Strange Feeling Merge
Producer	Tracey Thorn Ewan Pearson
Tracey Thorn chronology
Out of the Woods (2007) Love and Its Opposite (2010)

Love and Its Opposite is the third solo album by former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn, to be released on 17 May 2010.^[1] The album will be released on Thorn's husband Ben Watt's label Strange Feeling in the UK, and on Merge Records in North America. It was produced by Ewan Pearson, who also produced tracks on Thorn's previous album Out of the Woods.

Background

Love and Its Opposite was recorded in Berlin and London, and features guest contributions from Hot Chip's Al Doyle, The Invisible's Leo Taylor, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, Nashville musician Cortney Tidwell and Los Valentinos' guitarist Jono.^[2] It contains eight original songs and two cover versions: Lee Hazlewood's "Come on Home to Me" (a duet with Jens Lekman) and "You Are a Lover" by The Unbending Trees (with whom Thorn collaborated in 2008)^[2] The album's opening track, "Oh, the Divorces!", was made available as a free digital download on 17 February 2010, along with the confirmation of the album's track list.^[1]

Thorn has described the theme of the album as "a record about the person I am now and the people around me ... about real life after forty."^[2]

The cover art was designed by John Gilsenan.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Oh, the Divorces!"
2. "Long White Dress"
3. "Hormones"
4. "Kentish Town"
5. "Why Does the Wind?"
6. "You Are a Lover"
7. "Singles Bar"
8. "Come on Home to Me"
9. "Late in the Afternoon"
10. "Swimming"

External links

• Tracey Thorn official website

References