Continuing my look at the albums of 1986…

I was prepared to put English rock band XTC’s Skylarking on my list of the best 1986 albums, remembering my fondness for it during college. But when I listened to it for the first time in years, maybe the first time in decades, it didn’t grab me the way it used to.

‘Dear God’ still hits hard, but much of the rest is a bit too much. Too strident, too weirdly psychedelic.

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