[2024-09-27] XTC "Skylarking (Dolby Atmos Edition)" CD/Blu-ray set mixed by Steven Wilson (Ape House UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2024 9:16 pm

Amazon USA
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Amazon UK
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Description
The second of XTC’s albums to be mixed in Dolby Atmos by Steven Wilson, 1986's Skylarking - sequenced and produced by the legendary Todd Rundgren - is perhaps the most acclaimed of all the band's releases.

Mixed from the original multi-track studio master tapes and fully approved by XTC.

Contents:

CD: 2016 album mix plus bonus album track mixes by Steven Wilson.

Blu-ray:
Full album and additional tracks mixed in Dolby Atmos + instrumental versions
Full album and additional tracks in DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Sound (2016 mix)
Full album, additional tracks and instrumentals in 24/96 stereo (2016 mix).
Full album - original mix (corrected polarity edition) in 24/96 stereo.

Presented in replica mini-vinyl style packaging with booklet including photos and album lyrics

All 2024 and 2016 material mixed by Steven Wilson.

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An album unlike anything else in the band's back catalogue, dense orchestrations and a more organic soundscape were deployed in servicing some of the band's most melodically rich and sophisticated songs.

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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 and an Anglophile super-producer that turned rather imperfect in personality terms but still resulted in a classic album.

Tracklist
[CD]
features the 2016 album mix & bonus album track mixes 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
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16 Extrovert
17 Let’s Make a Den
18 Little Lighthouse
19 The Troubles

[Blu-ray]
Full album & additional tracks mixed in Dolby Atmos + instrumental versions
Full album & additional tracks in DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Sound (2016 mix)
Full album, additional tracks & instrumentals in 24/96 stereo (2016 mix).
Full album - original mix (corrected polarity edition) in 24/96 stereo.

[2024-09-27] XTC "Skylarking (Dolby Atmos Edition)" CD/Blu-ray set mixed by Steven Wilson (Ape House UK)

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