The lofty comparison is no hyperbole: Lush instrumentation, fanciful arrangements and a dense tapestry of sound effects—magical toy shop-like clicks and whirrs on "The Meeting Place," or serene nature ...

Field music: Swindoners’ pastoral epiphany, finally as nature intended... Never in quite the right place at the right time, XTC might have only ever delivered near-misses, had a miserable experience ...

XTC's 1986 album Skylarking is to be reissued on CD and Blu-ray and, for the first time, on 200g heavyweight vinyl through Ape House/Panegyric Records on September 27. The album is the second of the ...

New Atmos And 5.1 Surround Mixes Reinvent XTC’s Smash 1986 hit Skylarking and 1984’s The Big Express. In 2016, a wonderful CD+Blu-ray release celebrated XTC’s 1986 masterpiece, Skylarking, with a lush ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The members of XTC desperately needed a hit in 1985. Virgin Records, the band’s record label at ...

ARE YOU RECEIVING ME? More than four decades after XTC ceased touring, original drummer Terry Chambers leads EXTC, a trio that celebrates the music of his old band. Pictured, from left, are Steve ...

Right from the time they were first dreamed up, superheroes have always been utilized as metaphors for some aspect of human life. Why not use one to allude to the kind of poor treatment one might ...