- pop rock, rock, alternative rock
- 51 min
- 12 tracks
- TVT Records
Wasp Star is the fourteenth and final studio album by the English rock band XTC, released 23 May 2000 on Cooking Vinyl/Idea Records. Defined by bandmember Andy Partridge as the "eclectric" counterpart to 1999's Apple Venus Volume 1, it consists of rock-based material largely written between 1994 and 1996. Wasp Star reached number 40 on the UK Albums Chart.
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Spare, character-led, contemporary and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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Tracks
- 1Playground4:17
- 2Stupidly Happy4:14
- 3In Another Life3:36
- 4My Brown Guitar3:51
- 5Boarded Up3:23
- 6I’m the Man Who Murdered Love3:45
- 7We’re All Light4:39
- 8Standing In for Joe3:42
- 9Wounded Horse4:12
- 10You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful4:19
- 11Church of Women5:06
- 12The Wheel and the Maypole5:55
12 tracks, 51 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- XTC
- Label
- TVT Records
- Released
- 2000
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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