The second 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. 

 

Mixed from the original multi-track studio master tapes and fully approved by XTC.

 

Contents:

 

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. 

 

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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.

 

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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.