XTC - Chalkhills And Children - Features

This track by veteran band XTC saw producer Paul Fox mixing tones from a palette of vintage synths. Joe Silva gets the lowdown...

Sure, it’s all about Brian Wilson and Smile now, but back when engineer/producer Paul Fox got the call to produce XTC’s 1989 album Oranges And Lemons, no one wanted to know about that particular brand of pop sheen. Fox wisely saw to it, though, that it was liberally applied to Chalkhills And Children, the album’s closing track and a piece that the band saw as one of the cornerstones of songwriter Andy Partridge’s career. “This was the one song that kept me awake at night. My feeling when I heard this song was that this was my chance to record Surf’s Up.”

This feature first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 24
Filed under Back Track

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