Mummer

by XTC

Mummer cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 August 1983
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:06:45
  • Community rating: 3.31/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Terry Chambers, Pete Phipps, Nigel Warren-Green, Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Gavyn Wright

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Retiring permanently from live touring following Andy Partridge's nervous breakdown, XTC retreated to the studio to craft this lush, heavily pastoral art-pop album. 'Mummer' completely discards their early post-punk anxiety in favor of highly melodic, beautifully intricate acoustic arrangements imbued with quirky, pagan-inspired neo-psychedelia.

Genres

Descriptors: pagan, melodic, acoustic, twee, eccentric

Tracklist

  1. Beating Of Hearts (3:56)
  2. Wonderland (4:50)
  3. Love On A Farmboy's Wages (3:58)
  4. Great Fire (3:47)
  5. Deliver Us From The Elements (4:36)
  6. Human Alchemy (5:11)
  7. Ladybird (4:32)
  8. In Loving Memory Of A Name (3:16)
  9. Me And The Wind (4:17)
  10. Funk Pop A Roll (3:14)
  11. Frost Circus (3:53)
  12. Jump (4:39)
  13. Toys (4:20)
  14. Gold (3:33)
  15. Procession Towards Learning Land (3:46)
  16. Desert Island (4:52)

Credits

  • XTC - primary artist, mixed by [re-mixed], producer
  • Ansell Sadgrove - artwork
  • Ken Ansell - artwork
  • Andy Partridge - composed by, voice [voices], instruments
  • Colin Moulding - composed by, voice [voices], instruments
  • Pete Phipps - drums
  • Terry Chambers - drums
  • Mark Dearnley - engineer
  • Steve Nye - engineer, mellotron, producer, synthesizer [mini-korg]
  • Gavin Greenaway - engineer [assistant], tape op [tape-jockeys], other [tea makers], crew [gophers]
  • Howard Gray - engineer [assistant], tape op [tape-jockeys], other [tea makers], crew [gophers]
  • Jim Russell - engineer [assistant], tape op [tape-jockeys], other [tea makers], crew [gophers]
  • Marcellus Frank - engineer [assistant], tape op [tape-jockeys], other [tea makers], crew [gophers]
  • Mike Nocito - engineer [assistant], tape op [tape-jockeys], other [tea makers], crew [gophers]
  • John Dent - lacquer cut by
  • Ian Cooper - mastered by [disc mastering]
  • Alex Sadkin - mixed by [re-mixed]
  • Phil Thornalley - mixed by [re-mixed]
  • Gavin Cochrane - photography by [cover], photography
  • Ian Hooton - photography by [inner sleeve]
  • Bob Sargeant - producer
  • Gavyn Wright - strings
  • Nigel Warren-Green - strings
  • Dave Gregory - voice [voices], instruments

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