XTC were one of the most important, influential and experimental bands to come out of the UK Punk/New Wave movement. For the last few years they've been releasing definitive, deluxe versions of their albums (both on Blu Ray and on Vinyl). Last Summer yielded vinyl releases of both English Settlement and Skylarking. English Settlement is easily on of the bands' best albums; "Senses Working Overtime", "Ball & Chain" and "No Thugs In Our House" were the singles. Noteworthy album tracks include: "Jason And The Argonauts", "Melt The Guns" and "English Roundabout". The band has an easy confidence to their playing and sound at the top of their game.
Double album on 200 gram vinyl, a CD flat master of the album, a sixteen-page booklet with very detailed liner notes written by all four members of the band, and lyrics for all songs. The audio source is the original half-inch masters.
Very highly recommended to fans of XTC and to anyone not familiar with the band; do yourself a favor and check out this album, Black Sea and/or Drums And Wires.
Here's the video review:
Special Thanks to: Dave Rerecich of TeeVee Games.
Hi Bill,
ReplyDeleteWe are 2 XTC / art sleeve lovers from France & are currently working on a book about it (art sleeve, to sum it briefly) and woul like to use all that exists about the Go2 artwork concept.
We had seen your Go2 "This is a poster" image on Chalkhills years ago, but as it is, we can't use it for a too low definition. And we could not find another one since...
So :
Would you sell us your poster ?
Or :
Would you make a better photo / scan of it for chalkhills (and for us) ?
Of course, we'd like the first option better, we the second one would be nice !
Please keep in touch (we are quite desperate)
Marc & Jean-Jacques, down in France
(marc@cantais.fr / masse.jj@wanadoo.fr)