5 Facts About Tracey Thorn’s Pre-Everything But the Girl Debut
- A Distant Shore is Tracey Thorn’s first solo album, released in 1982 on Stiff Records.
- It came out before she formed Everything but the Girl with Ben Watt.
- The album is a minimalist folk-pop record, with Thorn playing acoustic guitar and singing alone.
- It includes the single “Plain Sailing,” which showcases her distinctive contralto voice.
- The album was reissued in 2018, adding bonus tracks from the same era.