Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at XTC’s ninth studio ...

The lofty comparison is no hyperbole: Lush instrumentation, fanciful arrangements and a dense tapestry of sound effects—magical toy shop-like clicks and whirrs on "The Meeting Place," or serene nature ...

Not every successful sports team loves their coach, and not every great band loves their producer. Just like Bill Belichick won six Super Bowls with New England Patriots teams that largely didn’t ...

The members of XTC desperately needed a hit in 1985. Virgin Records, the band’s record label at the time, was breathing down its neck and demanding profits, essentially giving the band one last chance ...

New Atmos And 5.1 Surround Mixes Reinvent XTC’s Smash 1986 hit Skylarking and 1984’s The Big Express. In 2016, a wonderful CD+Blu-ray release celebrated XTC’s 1986 masterpiece, Skylarking, with a lush ...

Field music: Swindoners’ pastoral epiphany, finally as nature intended... Never in quite the right place at the right time, XTC might have only ever delivered near-misses, had a miserable experience ...

XTC's 1986 album Skylarking is to be reissued on CD and Blu-ray and, for the first time, on 200g heavyweight vinyl through Ape House/Panegyric Records on September 27. The album is the second of the ...

After the departure of bassist Damon Carruesco, Brian Case, Noah Leger, and Jonathan van Herik of Chicago krautrock band Disappears became FACS. They recorded their debut album Negative Houses at ...