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XTC - Skylarking (2016 Steven Wilson Mix) 200G Vinyl LP Reissue

by XTC
Original price £20.99 - Original price £20.99
Original price
£20.99
£20.99 - £20.99
Current price £20.99
200G Black Vinyl LP Reissue
Catalogue Number: APELPR113
Barcode: 0633367796813
Record Grading: Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)
Condition Note: Brand New

Track Listing / Description
A1 Summer's Cauldron
A2 Grass
A3 The Meeting Place
A4 That's Really Super Supergirl
A5 Ballet For A Rainy Day
A6 1000 Umbrellas
A7 Season Cycle
B1 Earn Enough For Us
B2 Big Day
B3 Another Satellite
B4 Mermaid Smiled
B5 The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
B6 Dear God
B7 Dying
B8 Sacrificial Bonfire
 
First time the 2016 Steven Wilson mix of Skylarking will be released on 200 gram vinyl
 
Skylarking: XTC's 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 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.
 
When Steven Wilson remixed the album in 2016 – for new stereo & 5.1 Surround Sound editions on CD/Blu-ray, the release was successful again with both original & a new generation of fans. However, this remix was never released on vinyl.
 
Frequently requested as a vinyl release in recent years Ape House is now making the 2016 mix available on 200-gram vinyl, the first of Steven's XTC mixes to be issued on vinyl.