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XTC
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Out of 51 votes - Similar Artists: Squeeze, the Posies, Madness, Wire, Hoodoo Gurus, World Party
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Editor's review
As celebrated trailblazers of orchestral pop, XTC is responsible for some of the most endearingly catchy and adventurous pop music of the last 30 years. Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding, however, haven't slowed down; the songwriting duo continues to craft potent material, as evidenced by the wealth of music packed into their 2005 release "Apple Box".
Biography
XTC, now comprising the songwriting core duo of Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding, both founding members of XTC way back in 1975, are set to release their first boxed set on their own Idea Records.
Andy and Colin had conceived the idea of presenting two contrasting sides to XTC over two lps as a double album. Commercial pressures led this to become 2 albums released in rapid succession; Apple Venus Vol 1 released in 1999 and Wasp Star in 2000. This boxed set reunites those albums as they were originally intended with the added bonus of the demo recordings for each.
Compared to the chamber pop of the first volume, Wasp Star is, for the most part, XTC displaying their hard rock side. Apple Venus Vol 1 is, as one would expect, non-conformity at its most brilliant, luscious orchestral pop that sounded like nothing else released in 1999.
