Trying to take this all in

I wrote recently about Robyn Hitchcock’s wonderful new memoir 1967, which led me back to Hitchcock’s Soft Boys and solo work, which led me to Hitchcock’s 2019 collab with Andy Partridge of XTC—which reminded me of the piece below that I wrote about XTC’s “Senses Working Overtime,” one of the most remarkable singles of the 1980s. Some of you might’ve missed this the first time I posted it more than a year ago. That, and it’s sunny, pretty day in northern Illinois, so here’s the perfect to soundtr...