rodox_head wrote:I actually haven't given XTC a listen for quite a while now. I think I only listened up to Black Sea though.
Interesting that we went in opposite listening directions, ae I'm gravitating more towards the latter material and their Beatles and Beach Boys psychedelia pastiche, and yet English Settlement happens to be my favourite on the whole. I implore you to give it a go. It's so varied and dense to me, that's just my pluses of course.
I think you might like the songs "Jason and the Argonauts", "Melt The Guns", and "No Thugs in Our House" from it.
(They are the more blood pumping and angular sounding songs like their earlier works, each like a little XTC musical rabbit hole evolving in your ears.)
Black Sea, that's one I've got downloaded with only 1 play thus far.