Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at XTC’s ninth studio ...

Rundgren recalls studio turmoil, tensions with Andy Partridge and the unexpected brilliance of Dave Gregory during the making of XTC’s classic 1986 record ...

The lofty comparison is no hyperbole: Lush instrumentation, fanciful arrangements and a dense tapestry of sound effects—magical toy shop-like clicks and whirrs on "The Meeting Place," or serene nature ...

The producer said he had an album-length vision for the 1986 LP, which included XTC's first-ever Top 20 hit on Billboard's rock tracks chart, "Dear God." The band's co-founder, Andy Partridge, never ...

Field music: Swindoners’ pastoral epiphany, finally as nature intended... Never in quite the right place at the right time, XTC might have only ever delivered near-misses, had a miserable experience ...

New Atmos And 5.1 Surround Mixes Reinvent XTC’s Smash 1986 hit Skylarking and 1984’s The Big Express. In 2016, a wonderful CD+Blu-ray release celebrated XTC’s 1986 masterpiece, Skylarking, with a lush ...

The members of XTC desperately needed a hit in 1985. Virgin Records, the band’s record label at the time, was breathing down its neck and demanding profits, essentially giving the band one last chance ...

Not every successful sports team loves their coach, and not every great band loves their producer. Just like Bill Belichick won six Super Bowls with New England Patriots teams that largely didn’t ...

Andy Partridge has recalled the making of XTC’s classic Skylarking album in the new Uncut, out now. The band, in particular Partridge, clashed repeatedly with producer Todd Rundgren during the ...

“I tend to be a fixer,” Todd Rundgren says of his production gigs. “I get called in during a crisis.” For Rundgren, it’s a familiar pattern: commercially viable bands stalled by perception, pressure ...