Skylarking

The 2nd 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.

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.

"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.

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.

APE Records, September 27th, 2024.