Skylarking: CD / Blu-Ray JFDR showing a more serious side

showing a more serious side to the group’s lyricism

On the Romance of Being consists of 8 movements that sonically sprawl across post-gospel

It opened the doors to stadium shows and appearances at some of the biggest and most diverse festivals in the world

and you’re about right with how to summarize a group who’ve released ten singles

Skylarking: CD / Blu-Ray JFDR showing a more serious sideSkylarking: 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