XTC - Skylarking (Steven Wilson remix) vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
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23-Ape LPR 113
Andy Partridge and Steven Wilson supervised and remixed 8th album.
This is one of their highest points for me, in a career filled with highlights. One of the smartest, best and most distinctive pop bands of their time. Highly recommended.
“Sequenced and produced by the legendary Todd Rundgren, 1986's Skylarking is perhaps the most acclaimed of all XTC's releases.
An album unlike anything else in the band's back catalogue, dense orchestrations and a more organic soundscape were deployed in servicing some of the band's most melodically rich and sophisticated songs.
Steven Wilson produced the mixes with the input of founder band member Andy Partridge and the full approval of the band."
"XTC's most commercially successful album was, for many years, also it's most mythical with tales of "lost" multi-track tapes (sadly true of other XTC albums but not this one), a song originally dropped from the album only to be replaced when it inadvertently became a hit single in the USA, a perfect match, on paper, between the ideal Britpop band a decade before the term was invented & an Anglophile super-producer that turned rather imperfect in personality terms but still resulted in a classic album."
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