Skylarking: XTC’s most commercially successful album was, for
many years, also its 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 and an Anglophile super-producer that turned
rather imperfect in personality terms but still resulted in a classic album.
The second of XTC’s albums to be mixed in Dolby Atmos by Steven Wilson, 1986's
Skylarking - sequenced and produced by the
legendary Todd Rundgren - is perhaps the most acclaimed of all the band's
releases. Mixed from the original multi-track studio master tapes and fully
approved by XTC. To be released on September 27, 2024. Order yours today!