English Settlement

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Description: Amazon.com essential recording English Settlement is a watershed work for XTC that provides a valuable link between the band they had been (caustic, high pitched, and quirky) and the band they became (sublime, pastoral, and still undeniably quirky). It reveals a band in transition, coming only months before swearing off touring, due to Andy Partridge's stage fright, and the subsequent departure of drummer Terry Chambers. Despite the internal hemorrhaging, or perhaps because of it, XTC produced their finest record. English Settlement deals largely with the horrors of modern life and ordinary people's attempts to make sense of it ... (more)

Manufacturer: Caroline
Release date: 25 June 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724385066023 UPC: 766481782827

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Curse of the Music Diary (2025) (929 music items)

"13.4. Here we go again. This is boring, boring, BOORRRRIIINNGGG. "

Darth Brutus added this to a list 7 months ago

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"24.6. I just can't help it. I find XTC a very boring band, like there's something in their style of writing songs I just don't like. Too much repetition, too little surprises or creative twists and turns."