Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) Psonic Psunspot

How to follow a masterpiece like Skylarking? Well, in the slightly longer term, the answer would be with albums that were every bit as good – Oranges & Lemons and Nonsuch but, in the immediate aftermath of Skylarking and, as an album which was, in sales terms, a slow burner whose peak sales came many months after its initial release, XTC retreated to their alter egos, not as caped crime fighters patrolling the mean streets of Swindon but, as stalwarts of psychedelia echoing the spirit of '67 with 1987's John Leckie-produced Psonic Psunspot, ten perfectly formed songs of significance, culminating in "Pale and Precious" - one of the best songs of the decade. Cut on 200g vinyl LP at Loud Mastering by Jason Mitchell.