Tracey Thorn Adjusts to Her Ex-Bandmate Being Her Now-Spouse -- Exclusive Video

It's tough when you break up a long-running band, as Tracey Thorn, who recently paid a visit to our New York studio for a video interview, can attest about Everything but the Girl, the duo she started in Hull, England, with Ben Watt in 1982. It's especially difficult when you still share a bed with your former bandmate, as Thorn and Watt are a longtime couple with three children (they were married in 2009). Yet that's precisely what the singer and songwriter has done in order to concentrate on her solo career, which includes her recently issued 'Love and Its Opposite.' This third release under her own name -- following the lo-fi bare-bones voice-and-guitar of 'A Distant Shore' from 1982 and 2007's more dance-pop-oriented 'Out of the Woods' -- splits the difference between the two, with minimal electronics and small-combo guitar, bass, piano and drum arrangements.

Regarding the pitfalls of reconfiguring a creative and romantic partnership into a solely domestic one, Thorn admits it's just as hard as being in a band with your beloved. "People used to say to us, 'How do you manage to keep a relationship together and be in a group?' Thorn recalls. "And the honest answer is, a lot of the time it was difficult. We managed to make it work. And we got through it all, and it was good. But I'm not sure we could have carried on doing that forever. You know, it's quite hard working and living with someone. Now we've got three kids as well, so that's an added pressure, you know? Family life is enough of a pressure sometimes. And I think sometimes going off and doing your work separately is probably healthier."

Watch the full interview after the jump.