I'm always keen to check out more XTC. I got into their album "Apples Venus vol.1" (I think through looking at the 1001 albums book back in 2009 or so) and I loved the lovely, lush, slightly 1960s-esque pop with it's orchestral touches here and there.
By the time this album came out, the band had largely become a studio-based project, following singer/songwriter Andy Partridge's breakdown and refusal to continue touring. I do wonder if artists would be able to work as a solely studio-based unit nowadays with the majority of people not bothering to pay for recordings of music anymore.
This albums is typical of the other XTC albums I've heard before: excellent songcraft, some lush and interesting orchestrations, but with the occasional song that suits and utilises a more stripped-down approach. The tracks range from baroque pop to faux jazz to eastern psychedelia.
Apparently lyrically it is supposed to be the journey from birth, school, marriage, kids through to death. I picked up on bits and pieces of that, but for me it was largely just a musically enjoyable album.
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