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From Loudersound.
XTC co-frontman Colin Moulding is back with new music, this time as a solo artist. The Hardest Battle will be released as a CD single via Burning Shed on July 2.
Containing two songs – The Hardest Battle, Say It (original version), and an exploratory demo of the title track, The Hardest Battle represents Moulding‘s first ever fully solo release.
Following two releases with original XTC drummer Terry Chambers as TC&I – Great Aspirations EP and the album Naked Flames: Live At Swindon Arts Centre – The Hardest Battle is the first new material from Moulding in many years.
Says Moulding, “’To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight’: I saw these lines in a book I picked up in a secondhand bookshop and thought: maybe there’s a song there. I think it’s by the poet EE Cummins.
“And there it was. All I had to do was come up with some music to marry to this notion. I do think most people aren’t themselves really, or become themselves eventually. And that struggle isn’t easy. I recorded this pretty much in isolation as most people have been this past year or so. One crazy year for all of us. Perhaps The Hardest Battle we humans have faced externally, as well as the one we fight internally every day.”
Founded in 1972, XTC only had their first UK charting single in 1979. Moulding wrote the first three charting singles (Life Begins At The Hop, Making Plans For Nigel and Generals And Majors). Moulding continued with frontman Andy Partridge through the group’s dissolution in 2006. In 1984, they also, along with XTC bandmate Dave Gregory and Ian Gregory, formed The Dukes of Stratosphear, anticipating and celebrated by retro-minded movements such as the Paisley Underground.
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XTC Generals And Majors (1980 UK limited edition 4-track 7" doublepack, also including Don't Lose Your Temper, The Somnambulist & Smokeless Zone, hype stickered gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light wear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play VS365)
- XTC - Mummer - Portugese - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.35, €17.85 (New Item) (arrived 04-May-2024 10:14)on July 26, 2024 at 11:29 am
XTC Mummer (1980s Portuguese issue 10-track vinyl LP on the red & green Virgin label, their 1983 album, including the singles Wonderland, Great Fire and Love On A Farmboy's Wages, picture sleeve with printed inner. The sleeve has a little shelfwear to the edges while the vinyl remains excellent with some minor cosmetic surface scuffs)
- XTC - Love On A Farmboy's Wages - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $19.35, €17.85 (New Item) (arrived 18-Mar-2024 11:55)on July 26, 2024 at 11:29 am
XTC Love On A Farmboy's Wages (1983 UK limited edition 4-track 7" double pack, also including In Loving Memory Of A Name, Toys and Desert Island, top opening gatefold picture sleeve. The slightly oversize sleeve shows just a little edge scuffing and the vinyl remains in excellent condition with just a few light surface scuffs to show for forty years VS613)
- XTC - Skylarking - Remastered 200 Gram - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £24.99, $32.24, €29.74 (New Item) (arrived 27-Mar-2024 08:25)on July 26, 2024 at 11:29 am
XTC Skylarking (2018 UK/EU limited edition 15-track remastered LP, newly cut from masters approved by Andy Partridge and pressed on 200-gram Super-Heavyweight Vinyl. Their classic 1986 album now featuring the singles Grass and The Meeting Place plus Dear God and Mermaid Smiled. High quality picture sleeve factory sealed from new with hype sticker attached. A gem of an album!)
- XTC - Skylarking - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.80, €23.80 (New Item) (arrived 08-Apr-2024 08:37)on July 26, 2024 at 11:29 am
XTC Skylarking (Classic 1986 UK 12-track LP, the band's eighth album produced by Todd Rundgren, essentially a concept record named after a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, embossed picture sleeve with lyric inner. The sleeve [VG] has a sticker mark in the top right corner and shows some notable edgewear, whilst the vinyl has just a few cosmetic surface scuffs V2399)
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