XTC - White Music (200 Gram Vinyl)

The 1978 classic debut album

Newly cut from masters by Jason Mitchell at LOUD mastering and approved by Andy Partridge.

Pressed on 200gram super-heavyweight vinyl at Vinyl Factory UK

WHITE MUSIC: “I wanted it to sound like hearing Johnny & the Hurricanes’ ‘Red River Rock’ as heard on a fairground ride through a cranked up PA speaker or like Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band playing bubblegum music…” Andy Partridge This is how Andy describes the sound he was looking for in its January 1978 released debut.

The release date is worth noting. It signaled that this year’s models would approach music more expansively - abandoning the constrictions and the monochrome certainties of 1977’s scorched earth punk for a more colourful inquisitive alternative. Along with XTC, Virgin would, in 1978, issue debut albums from Magazine, Devo, Penetration and, significantly, as the year came to a close, Public Image Limited.

1. Radios In Motion

2. X Wires

3. This Is Pop

4. Do What You Do

5. Statue Of Liberty

6. All Along The Watch

7. Tower 8. Atom Age

9. Set Myself On Fire

10. I’m Bugged

11. New Town Animal

12. Spinning Top

13. Neon Shuffle