- Skylarking (Remastered) · 1986
- English Settlement · 1982
- English Settlement · 1982
- English Settlement · 1982
- English Settlement · 1982
- English Settlement · 1982
- Black Sea (Bonus Track Version) · 1980
- Dear God - EP · 1986
- White Music (Bonus Track Version) · 1978
- White Music (Bonus Track Version) · 1978
- Nonsuch · 1992
- Oranges & Lemons · 1989
- Nonsuch · 1992
Essential Albums
- After four albums of skittish and meticulous New Wave pop, Andy Partridge pushed his band to create English Settlement, their first double album. It is an exceptionally ripe collection of ideas: one moment a jittery anti-violence chant (“Melt the Guns”), the next a double-speed pastoral skank (“English Roundabout”). He also toned down some of their trademark dissonance for chiming ’60s guitars, particularly on the stunning single “Senses Working Overtime”—a song about his impending nervous breakdown—and the unsettlingly sweet warning shot “All of a Sudden (It’s Too Late).”
Albums
- 1992
- 1989
- 1982
Music Videos
- 1988
- 1981
- 1980
Artist Playlists
- From twitchy punk noise to pastoral psychedelia, this is pop.
- Countless bands owe their sound to these quirky post-punk radicals.
- Wonderstruck melodies and languid psychedelia.
Singles & EPs
- 1987
Compilations
Appears On
- The Dukes of Stratosphear
About XTC
XTC virtually defined the dividing line between punk and new-wave, adding punk's raw energy to their herky-jerky rhythms, funhouse arrangements and Beatles-influenced songcraft. In the early 1980s, bandleader Andy Partridge surrendered to his stage fright and retired the band from live performance, but XTC continued to make smartly crafted pop records. By the end of the decade the band even began to make mainstream inroads, popping up on MTV and charting a 1988 modern rock #1 with "Mayor of Simpleton."
- ORIGIN
- Swindon, Wiltshire, England
- FORMED
- 1984
- GENRE
- Alternative