Everything But the Girl

A leader of the sophisti-pop movement throughout the 1980s, Everything But the Girl became an unlikely success story during the mid-'90s, emerging at the vanguard of the fusion between pop and electronica. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, both already active as solo artists, formed the duo in 1982 and began making hushed, jazzy folk-pop, releasing a string of albums that earned gold certifications in their native U.K., including their 1984 debut Eden and 1988's Idlewild (containing the number three hit "I Don't Want to Talk About It"). Todd Terry's house remix of "Missing" (from 199...