Music – Adrian Robson

A garden of earthly delights – XTC’s studio albums – The Big Express

I’ve had this idea in my mind that The Big Express was the album where the album buying public really fell out of love with XTC.

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A garden of earthly delights – XTC’s studio albums – Mummer

XTC are the Village Green Preservation Society.

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In praise of … compilation albums

When it comes to lists of favourite albums, compilation albums are often conspicuous by their absence.

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A garden of earthly delights – XTC’s studio albums – English Settlement

English Settlement is the pivotal album for XTC with both cover and name signalling a shift in perspective for the band. A shift from suburban to countryside, from contemporary to timeless.

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A garden of earthly delights – XTC’s studio albums – Black Sea

Singles and album from XTC’s Black Sea era

Is this my favourite XTC album?

Not quite, but we’re almost there on our journey through Swindon’s finest’s back catalogue.

Black Sea is another great XTC album

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A garden of earthly delights – XTC’s studio albums – Drums and Wires

Singles and album from XTC's Drums and Wires era

Continuing my series of album reviews by bands who have been important to me.

XTC’s Drums and Wires from 1979 is Drums and Wires is a really good album.

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A garden of earthly delights – XTC’s studio albums – Go 2

Continuing my series of album reviews by bands who have been important to me.

Go 2 from 1978. The second album of the year and it shows.

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A garden of earthly delights – XTC’s studio albums – White Music

In the first of a series of reviews of albums by bands who have been important to me, I look at the output of XTC – the classically underrated Swindon band who should be talked about in the same breath as the Kinks, but aren’t.

For starters, the first studio album, White Music from 1978