XTC – Skylarking – 30th anniversary (2016)

Posted on January 23, 2017 by

XTC – Skylarking – 30th anniversary (2016)
Genre: Rock,Alternative Rock,Art Rock,New Wave,Post Punk
Quality: FLAC 5.1 (tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless [96kHz/24bit]
Time: 01:03:07
Full Size: 3,05 Gb

Skylarking is the fourth in a series of remixed and expanded XTC albums. For many music fans, the band’s Todd Rundgren produced 8th album is *the* classic XTC album, and therefore the one for which there has been the most demand for a 5.1 surround mix. The album has been remixed in both new stereo and 5.1 surround sound by Steven Wilson with input from Andy Partridge, and is fully approved by XTC.

Tracklist:
• 2016 Mix by Steven Wilson
1 Summer’s Cauldron
2 Grass
3 The Meeting Place
4 That’s Really Super Supergirl
5 Ballet For A Rainy Day
6 1000 Umbrellas
7 Season Cycle
8 Earn Enough For Us
9 Big Day
10 Another Satellite
11 Mermaid Smiled
12 The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
13 Dear God
14 Dying
15 Sacrificial Bonfire

• Bonus 2016 Mixes
16 Extrovert
17 Let’s Make A Den
18 The Troubles
19 Little Lighthouse

Andy Partridge – vocals, guitar
Colin Moulding – vocals, bass, and bonfire
Dave Gregory – vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer, Chamberlin, string arrangement on "1,000 Umbrellas" and the odd tiple

Additional:
Prairie Prince – "the part of the time bomb" (i.e., drums)
Beech Avenue Boys (i.e., XTC) – backing vocals
Todd Rundgren – orchestral arrangements, computer programming, melodica on "Summer’s Cauldron", keyboards on "Grass" and "That’s Really Super Supergirl", and backing vocals
Mingo Lewis – percussion on "Mermaid Smiled" and "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul"
John Tenney – violin
Emily Van Valkenburgh – violin
Rebecca Sebring – viola
Teressa Adams – cello
Charlie McCarthy – alto and tenor saxophone, flute
Bob Ferreira – tenor saxophone, piccolo, bass clarinet
Dave Bendigkeit – trumpet
Dean Hubbard – trombone
Jasmine Veillette – vocals on the first verse and final line of "Dear God"