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August 3, 2024:

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!

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Paul Tornbohm has contributed a transcription of the lyrics to “Things Fall To Bits”. “Deze albums neemt Harke Jan van der Meulen mee naar een onbewoond eiland”.

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