| Release Date: | CLR2024rock |
| Currently: | In stock (2) |
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May 13 street date. Unavailable for decades on LP and with its original, but never used, sleeve art restored, "Mummer" becomes the eleventh XTC studio album to be reissued on high grade audiophile vinyl.
"Mummer" was another turning point for the band as it marked their first release as a studio only band. Evolving from the brash, post-punk/pop of their first two albums "White Music" and "Go2" into one of the most highly regarded of British bands of the era via a trio of essential albums - "Drums And Wires", "Black Sea", "English Settlement" - which showcased the increasing versatility of both band and the twin songwriters, Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding. But even the comparatively quieter/more considered "English Settlement" was very much an album of songs written with one ear for the studio and another for how they would work live. "Mummer" was different. Freed from the constraints of "the road", this was XTC in widescreen - experimenting with songs, arrangements and the expanded sonic palette that studios can provide when there is no afterthought as to how to reproduce the material in a variety of theatres, university halls and other venues few, if any, of which were built with rock groups in mind.
| Beating Of Hearts | 4:01 |
| Wonderland | 4:43 |
| Love On A Farmboy's Wages | 3:58 |
| Great Fire | 3:47 |
| Deliver Us From The Elements | 4:34 |
| Human Alchemy | 5:11 |
| Ladybird | 4:32 |
| In Loving Memory Of A Name | 3:16 |
| Me And The Wind | 4:16 |
| Funk Pop A Roll | 3:0 |
