XTC - Black Sea
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Music CD Cover Artist: XTC Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2002-06-25 Music Label: Caroline Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Black Sea Album
Free Music Review: Human Alchemy
Hit: 5 Stars
Andy & Colin learn to write pop songs with an edge in this latest edition of the XTC press.With Dave Gregory on board, the band now had a melodic edge that they lacked with Barry Andrews. Andrews added a more chaotic touch to the band's songs with his off the wall keyboard parts. While that wild energy was missed(part of the fun of early XTC albums was listening to Partridge & Moulding discover the melody and then promptly--with Andrews extensive help--bury it).
Gregory provided some order amongst the choas and, by doing so, allowed Andy & Colin to mature as songwriters. This transitional album(that is not intended as an attack)showed the band straddling the fence between the "punk" sound that they never fully embraced and the mid-60's Kinks-Beatles sound that found full flower on SKYLARKING.
"Sgt. Rock" is the classic comicbook hero song(sorry Paul, "Magneto & Titanium Man" just doesn't compare and Kate, while "Ken" has its moments it lacks the identifaction factor of "Sgt. Rock" for the boys in the crowd). The b sides fit in well with the rest of the album and its obvious that these were leftovers(what leftovers!)that didn't make the final line up.
My only complaint, minor at that, is that Virgin/Geffen should have put the bonus tracks at the end of the album with a little gap. It disturbs the continuity of the original album. Still, a minor complaint(it's more of an issue with some of the bonus tracks from the pastoral MUMMER).
A fine XTC album to start off your collection. These guys are among the smartest pop songwriters today.