Name: Mummer
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Mummer

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Album: Mummer
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Beating of Hearts	More Info...	0:04
2)	Wonderland	More Info...	0:05
3)	Love On a Farmboy's Wages	More Info...	0:04
4)	Great Fire	More Info...	0:03
5)	Deliver Us from the Elements	More Info...	0:04
6)	Human Alchemy	More Info...	0:05
7)	Ladybird	More Info...	0:04
8)	In Loving Memory of a Name	More Info...	0:03
9)	Me and the Wind	More Info...	0:04
10)	Funk Pop a Roll	More Info...	0:03
11)	Frost Circus	More Info...	0:04
12)	Jump	More Info...	0:04
13)	Toys	More Info...	0:04
14)	Gold	More Info...	0:03
15)	Pocession Towards Learning Land	More Info...	0:03
16)	Desert Island	More Info...	0:05

Album: Mummer
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Beating of Hearts	More Info...	0:04
2)	Wonderland	More Info...	0:05
3)	Love On a Farmboy's Wages	More Info...	0:04
4)	Great Fire	More Info...	0:03
5)	Deliver Us from the Elements	More Info...	0:04
6)	Human Alchemy	More Info...	0:05
7)	Ladybird	More Info...	0:04
8)	In Loving Memory of a Name	More Info...	0:03
9)	Me and the Wind	More Info...	0:04
10)	Funk Pop a Roll	More Info...	0:03
11)	Frost Circus	More Info...	0:04
12)	Jump	More Info...	0:04
13)	Toys	More Info...	0:04
14)	Gold	More Info...	0:03
15)	Pocession Towards Learning Land	More Info...	0:03
16)	Desert Island	More Info...	0:05

Performer Notes

All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Having fully settled into their retirement from touring, this was XTC's second album since leaving the stage for good. With none of the songs having developed in live performance, their studio inclinations were given full range to go where they might. MUMMER opens with the African rhythms of "Beating Of Hearts," with things then immediately turning intimate and pastoral as Colin Moulding's "Wonderland" drifts in like a falling leaf. Andy Partridge delivered a few novel takes on familiar themes of love and longing with "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" and "Great Fire." The album also closes with his "Funk Pop A Roll," which ironically starts a dance party right when it's time to leave.

Professional Reviews

Q (7/01, p.139) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The first work from the studio-bound XTC, expanding the pastoral themes....XTC were a motherlode of rampant imagination..."

CMJ (1/5/04, p.14) - Ranked #14 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1984"