They got me with this one. Everything But The Girl, the long-running UK duo of married couple Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, recently started releasing new music and playing live again after a decades-long break, and the first single from their upcoming album Blue Reservoir is all about aging and missing the version of yourself that did ridiculous, passionate, self-destructive things all the time. In a soft and husky rasp, Thorn sings, "Yes I’m older and wiser/ I know more than I did then/ But I’d give up all the wisdom to be young and dumb again." Whoof. That's too real. I'm not sure I was ready to confront that level of realness on a Wednesday morning in October.

Everything But The Girl started way back in 1982, and they went through a number of different styles, from the slinky sophisti-pop of their early days to the slinky drum 'n' bass that they adapted in the late '90s.…