XTC As Dukes OF The Stratosphear- Psonic PsunspotLabel: Ape House Ltd. Reissued 2019, Originally released 1987 Digitally remastered release from XTC's Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, and Dave Gregory masquerading as 'lost' '60s psych band called The Dukes of Stratosphear. Their second and seminal, final album. Produced by John Leckie (Swami Anand Nagara) and The Dukes. How to follow a masterpiece like Skylarking? XTC retreated to their alter egos, not as caped crime fighters patrolling the mean

Luv Machine

Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered pianist Herbie Nichols to be as original and important as Thelonious Monk

mesmeric guitar grind Simms and Newman's keyboards add a plaintive note

Sub Pop Records and Mojo Records

and accordion (played by Parks)

Impasse (Workin' for the Name)

The Final Sound

metal clanging and metronomic death-pulse of "Sense of Male

Side A- Truman Peyote

Unreflected

but they don't let the more harrowing aspects of being alive and young in the 21st century daunt them

Stay Don't Go