XTC - Skylarking - Ape House Reissue - Sound Corrected - Super RARE
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XTC - Skylarking -
Ape House Reissue
Sound Corrected!! Super RARE!!
LP - XTC - Skylarking
Label - Ape LP 044
LP Condition - NM-- Played once.
Album Cover - VG++ Some corner wear evident from shipping from UK.
This is the hard-to-find regular reissue of the classic XTC - Todd Rungren effort. It includes both Dear God and Mermaid Smiled.
According to Ape House, mastering engineer John Dent was working on a vinyl reissue of the Todd Rundgren-produced Skylarking — which the band long had felt “sounded a little too thin and bass light” — when he discovered that all previous vinyl and CD editions (including the pricey Mobile Fidelity gold CD) were manufactured with the sound polarity reversed.
For the casual fan, Ape House explains, that means “sound waves that should be pushing out from your speakers are actually pulling them back and projecting from the rear,” resulting in music that sounds “distant and thinner” than it should.
Dent reports that the “original tapes appear in very good condition,” and Ape House now plans “to present to you shortly a splendid double deep vinyl cut of this classic XTC album as it was intended to sound.” - from Slicing Up Eyeballs website
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