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XTC: 3D Limited 10" Eco-Jazz Vinyl EP

by XTC

Release Date: 02 July 2025

Format: EP Vinyl

Label: Panegyric Records

£16.99

XTC: 3D Limited 10" Eco-Jazz Vinyl EP

Overview:

1977 was a classic year for singles, the year when ‘Punk’ mutated into New Wave producing aseemingly endless run of great 45s – from The Ramones to The Jam, Elvis Costello to Jonathan
Richman, Sex Pistols to Richard Hell. With David Bowie (Heroes), Kraftwerk (Showroom Dummies)and Bob Marley (Jamming) also, releasing key singles – it was as if Marley’s Punky Reggae Partyhad plenty of wonderful music from the mainstream to broaden the 7” mix still further… but that’sonly one side of the story…Mainstream music buyers seemed oblivious to much of the above as - Elvis Presley (death), DavidSoul (TV, twice), Rod Stewart (preventing Sex Pistols from reaching No.1) and Mull of Kintyre(ending the year and the start of 1978), dominated the pole position in the singles charts.The major labels’ priorities remained little changed. CBS may have had The Clash but the attentionwas on Abba, Polydor had The Jam but Jean-Michel Jarre had the marketing spend, United Artistshad Buzzcocks and The Stranglers, but the priority (& No. 1) single came from Kenny Rogers, in acountry that, reputedly, dismissed Country music – even MOR Country.But the speed of musical change underneath the mainstream was as fast as a shouted “1, 2, 3, 4”on any number of monochrome identi-punk singles in equally drab sleeves and it was into this febrilemix that XTC released its first 12” EP – 3D, at the end of September ’77 (a 7” version waswithdrawn) and for all that it shared the freneticism of its punkier brethren, it also boasted – evenacross just three tracks - a variety, a colour and a pop sensibility that acted as a marker for theband’s future rapid development. Whisper it, but these guys could actually play… and write tunes,accessible ones that burrowed their way into your ears and brain…An album wouldn’t appear until early 1978 (by which time “Post Punk” was emerging as marketingname of the month) but XTC had made their recorded entry in that magical year and not for the firstor last time, shown they could compete with the best (and worst) that 1977 placed on vinyl.Reissued in 2023 for the first time in decades as a standalone title (online only until now), this 3D EP10” eco-vinyl edition is available to order for a very limited period now.

Featured Tracks:

Side A

1. Science Friction

Side B

1. She’s So Square
2. Dance Band

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