I always thought of XTC as a kind of New Wave version of the Beatles. With the melodic invention of Colin Moulding and the angular more pointed songs of Andy Partridge. Like The Beatles they also eventually became a studio only band after Andy Partridge developed severe stage fright and could not tour. Skylarking was a late period XTC album and is considered by many to be their zenith. Recorded under the direction of Todd Rundgren with much fractiousness, as he drove to make the band more commercial. When release the band distanced themselves a bit from but but now with time having distanced them from the tensions, acknowledge that what as achieved was pretty special.
The Double A Single Grass / Dear God was a success with Dear God being added to the US version of the album. Add tracks like The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul and Mermaid Smiled and you have a pretty impressive album.
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