Skylarking

Description

First time the 2016 Steven Wilson mix of Skylarking will be released on 200 gram vinyl.

Presented in a gatefold sleeve with lyrics appearing in the inner gatefold.

Cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering.

Skylarking: 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 in personality terms but still resulted in a classic album.

Still, a masterpiece remains a masterpiece however traumatic its origins & this is one of those few albums that sounded great at the time & sounds just as great, if not better, now.

When Steven Wilson remixed the album in 2016 for new stereo & 5.1 Surround Sound editions on CD/Blu-ray, the release was successful again with both original & a new generation of fans. However, this remix was never released on vinyl.

Frequently requested as a vinyl release in recent years & with the new CD/Blu-ray release this Autumn in Dolby Atmos (remixed again by StevenWilson), the timing is ideal for Ape House to make the 2016 mix available on 200-gram vinyl the first of Stevens XTC mixes to be issued on vinyl.