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It would be easy for me just to blow this one off as ‘XTC Chapter 902’. To
those who already love the band, it’s unfair to them to suggest that they
know exactly what they’re getting when they pop the sequel to last year’s
“Apple Venus" into their stereo: Quirky, very English (‘painfully so’, it’s
been remarked), pastoral pop delivered by the two chaps who brought you
“Senses Working Overtime". Since their 1978 debut “White Music", and even
through their detour as “The Dukes of Stratosphear", and their experiments
thereon with psychedelic rock, “Dear God" and “Senses…" are the closest
they’ve gotten to making their peculiar brand of pop, uh, popular. In
today’s climate, “Wasp Star" seems even more likely to have an uphill swim
ahead of it. Standout track: “My Brown Guitar". My prediction is that,
unfortunately, this won’t do a whole lot better than “Apple Venus Volume
One". They just don’t have the right choreographer. Or make-up man. Or
gargoyle tattoos. Who really wants to see those guys bare stomachs anyways?
By Jason Thornberry, CanEHdian.com
(Read more of Jason's Jargon here)
XTC "Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume 2" 
