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XTC ~ Mummer
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Release Date: 6 May, 2022
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Album artwork restored to Andy Partridge’s originally intended cover. The album has been mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud mastering with input from Andy Partridge and is fully approved by XTC.
XTC's sixth album, Mummer was another turning point for the band as it marked their first release as a studio only band. Evolving from the brash, post-punk / pop of their first two albums White Music and Go2 into one of the most highly regarded of British bands of the era via a trio of essential albums – Drums And Wires, Black Sea, English Settlement – which showcased the increasing versatility of both band and the twin songwriters, Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding.
But even the comparatively quieter / more considered English Settlement was very much an album of songs written with one ear for the studio and another for how they would work live. Mummer was different.
Freed from the constraints of ‘the road’ this was XTC in widescreen – experimenting with songs, arrangements and the expanded sonic palette that studios can provide when there is no afterthought as to how to reproduce the material in a variety of theatres, university halls and other venues few, if any, of which were built with rock groups in mind. And, just as the Mummers’ plays involve people travelling from place to place in a village enacting tales of the cycle of life (albeit in disguise), XTC travelled the best of the UK’s studios recording, mixing and re-mixing their songs cycle to exacting standards.
XTC's sixth album, Mummer was another turning point for the band as it marked their first release as a studio only band. Evolving from the brash, post-punk / pop of their first two albums White Music and Go2 into one of the most highly regarded of British bands of the era via a trio of essential albums – Drums And Wires, Black Sea, English Settlement – which showcased the increasing versatility of both band and the twin songwriters, Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding.
But even the comparatively quieter / more considered English Settlement was very much an album of songs written with one ear for the studio and another for how they would work live. Mummer was different.
Freed from the constraints of ‘the road’ this was XTC in widescreen – experimenting with songs, arrangements and the expanded sonic palette that studios can provide when there is no afterthought as to how to reproduce the material in a variety of theatres, university halls and other venues few, if any, of which were built with rock groups in mind. And, just as the Mummers’ plays involve people travelling from place to place in a village enacting tales of the cycle of life (albeit in disguise), XTC travelled the best of the UK’s studios recording, mixing and re-mixing their songs cycle to exacting standards.