XTC - Skylarking (Panegyric)

XTC – Skylarking (Panegyric)

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.

Still, a masterpiece remains a masterpiece however traumatic its origins and this is one of those few albums that sounded great at the time and sounds just as great, if not better, now.

Tracklist

Summer's Cauldron

Grass

The Meeting Place

That's Really Super, Supergirl

Ballet For A Rainy Day

1000 Umbrellas

Season Cycle

Earn Enough For Us

Big Day

Another Satellite

Mermaid Smiled

The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul

Dying

Sacrificial Bonfire

Dear God

Version: Black LP Vinyl

Released: 30^th July 2021

Catalogue Number: APELP113

Condition: New Sealed