XTC | Skylarking (2024 Dolby Atmos Edition & Vinyl Reissue)

XTC masterpiece ‘Skylarking’ with new Dolby Atmos mix by Steven Wilson, available in a new CD+Blu-ray deluxe edition. Steven Wilson's 2016 remix will also be available on vinyl for the first time.

For many years, ‘Skylarking’ was XTC's most mythical album ith 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 in personality terms but still resulted in a classic album.

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