XTC - Mummer LP (200g) (MARKDOWN)

Mummer is the eleventh in a series of XTC classics to be issued on 200g vinyl. Unavailable for decades on LP and with its original, but never used, sleeve art restored, the album has been mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering with input from Andy Partridge (and is fully approved by XTC). Featuring the sublime "Love On A Farmboy's Wages," Mummer represented another turning point for XTC as it marked their first release as a studio only band. Freed from the constraints of ‘the road' Mummer presented XTC in widescreen - experimenting with songs, arrangements and the expanded sonic palette that studios can provide when there is no afterthought as to how to reproduce the material in a variety of theatres, university halls and other venues few, if any, of which were built with rock groups in mind. And, just as Mummers' themes involve people travelling from place to place in a village enacting tales of the cycle of life (albeit in disguise), XTC travelled the best of the UK's studios