XTC "APPLE VENUS: VOLUME 1" LP
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XTC "APPLE VENUS" LP
COOKING VINYL COOK 172
Rare original LP.
After an incredible seven-year absence from recording, XTC returned with an orchestra in tow. The intervening years found the band embroiled in legal problems and when they finally emerged to embark on this new work, they were reduced to aduo. Guitarist Dave Gregory departed, leaving just foundersand songwriters Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding. The orchestral settings which became the identity of this first volume create vast and often theatrical settings for the songs, which don't stray far from what one would expect from XTC (that is, when they choose not to rock).
"River of Orchids"opens the album and announces their intentions as the arrangement slowly comes into view. Setting aside most worldly concerns for affairs of the heart, the album has a thematic unity that gives the whole thing the feel of a song cycle. Contributing only two songs to Partridge's nine, Moudling's "Frivolous Tonight" is a real gem, possessing a powerful beautywrapped in hypnotic melancholia..
This copy graded as NM/NM. Never played, and only unsealed to slide the LP into an anti-static sleeve. The cover has also been kept pristine in a resealable polythene bag.
1. River Of Orchids 2. I'd Like That 3. Easter Theatre 4. Knights In Shining Karma 5. Frivolous Tonight 6. Greenman 7. Your Dictionary 8. Fruit Nut 9. I Can't Own Her 10. Harvest Festival 11. Last Balloon
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