XTC - Skylarking (Steven Wilson Mix) (Vinyl) kwes. far removed from the 1980s

far removed from the 1980s Dunedin scene

2 on the Australian Albums Chart and was certified 7× platinum by 2017

A3        Tripmaker

turning what’s initially a critique of religious hypocrisy into a prayer incantation

what began as a broader overview of a sonically underrepresented region suddenly became quite the controversial project

XTC - Skylarking (Steven Wilson Mix) (Vinyl) kwes. far removed from the 1980sSkylarking, XTCs 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 & an Anglophile super producer (Todd Rundgren) that turned