| Release Date: | CLR2024rock |
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June 24 street date. XTC's 1978 classic debut album "White Music", newly cut from masters by Jason Mitchell at LOUD mastering and approved by Andy Partridge.
"I wanted it to sound like hearing Johnny & The Hurricanes' ‘Red River Rock’ as heard on a fairground ride through a cranked up PA speaker or like Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band playing bubblegum music" - Andy Partridge. Containing more energy than a fully functioning power plant, "White Music"'s pop via punk was more like ? and the Mysterians channeling The Stooges and The Lemon Pipers than Brit Punk. The playing was tight (yes, the band could play), the tunes were strong, the lyrics clever, John Leckie's production kept the sound direct and ‘in your face’ (or should that be ears?) and even the sole cover version on the album was, in that period, a brave choice; a Dylan song and not just any Dylan song but a trippy, dub influenced ‘All Along the Watchtower’. "White Music" neatly encapsulates the frenetic nature of the post-punk/new wave period, a time when bands such as XTC could issue two singles and two albums in under twelve months while maintaining a full schedule of gigs reached in poor transport, frequently followed by poorer accommodation and along with all of the accompanying press and promo requirements, all in order to build an audience.
TRACKLIST:
| Radios In Motion | 2:52 | ||
| Cross Wires | 2:03 | ||
| This Is Pop | 2:38 | ||
| Do What You Do | 1:14 | ||
| Statue Of Liberty | 2:52 | ||
| All Along The Watchtower | 5:40 | ||
| Into The Atom Age | 2:32 | ||
| I'll Set Myself On Fire | 3:00 | ||
| I'm Bugged | 3:59 | ||
| New Town Animal In A Furnished Cage | 1:51 | ||
| Spinning Top | 2:38 | ||
| Neon Shuffle | 4:25 |
