XTC
The Big Express BURNING SHED
Neglected 80s progressive pop gem gets the Wilson treatment.
In 1984, seven albums deep into their career, things weren’t quite going XTC’s way. Having been chastened by the indifference that greeted 1983’s Mummer, the Wiltshire progressive art-rockers stubbornly sought to up the ante with follow-up The Big Express, a concept record largely influenced by their hometown Swindon and its famous railway shed, Swindon Works.