Skylarking (2016 Steve Wilson Mix): Heavyweight Vinyl LP Dead Nature Landscapes

Landscapes

poignant reflective ballad Hallelujah and emotionally charged Now I'm In It are all gems

Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) and Phil ‘Phil’ Winter (Tuung) would get together with a very select kit list of careworn analog synthesizers and vintage digital sequencers

FUN TONIGHT

Skylarking (2016 Steve Wilson Mix): Heavyweight Vinyl LP Dead Nature LandscapesSkylarking: 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 that turned rather imperfect