Tracey Thorn
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One of the things the public doesn’t really think about is that singers don’t just go into a studio, sing the song through once and go home. They do endless takes of each line of each song and we spend hours compiling the best bits like a jigsaw. Unless you are Tracey Thorn of course.
Tracey would come into the studio, put down her Chekhov play she was reading, go up to the microphone and sing a song with devastating ease, commitment and accuracy. ‘was that ok? I’ll get back to my book then’.
The other thing is that her speaking voice and her singing voice are so different even her mother doesn’t believe she really does the singing on her records.
She has a new record out this month. Not my cup of tea as Tracey has totally embraced beats and synths just as I have committed myself back to real instruments and real bands. But track 5 is the best song I’ve heard for a decade.
