Name: Mummer
Brand: XTC

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

apecd106

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Colour

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2012-10-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Little Amber Fish

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

1983's 'mummer' was the first fruit of the swindon combo's 'pastoral' period, but merely proved to be the inaugural chapter in xtc's mercifully brief mid-life crises. a commercial flop, stalling outside of the uk top 50 - a major setback considering the belated 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.

Mummer

Music GB