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Mummer
Mummer, from 1983, was the first fruit of the British pop combo's "pastoral" period, but merely proved to be the inaugural chapter in XTC's mercifully brief midlife crises. A commercial flop, stalling outside of the U.K. Top 50--a major setback considering the bridgeheads established in both the British and American charts by the preceding Black Sea and English Settlement albums--Mummer was considered something of an artistic disappointment at the time. Even so, any record that contains such moments of delicious rural innocence as the folksy "Love on a Farmboy's Wages" ("shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in") or the mangled, chamber orchestra pyromania of "Great Fire" is worth a listen, while the addition of several alternately odd and poppy B-sides only adds to the intrigue. The poorer cousin of the subsequent Skylarking, perhaps, but well worth reassessing now that time has passed. --Kevin Maidment
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Tracks| 1 | Beating Of Hearts | | 2 | Wonderland | | 3 | Love On A Farmboy's Wages | | 4 | Great Fire | | 5 | Deliver Us From The Elements | | 6 | Human Alchemy | | 7 | Ladybird | | 8 | In Loving Memory Of A Name | | 9 | Me And The Wind | | 10 | Funk Pop A Roll | | 11 | Frost Circus | | 12 | Jump | | 13 | Toys | | 14 | Gold | | 15 | Procession Towards Learning Land | | 16 | Desert Island |
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