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Combine One Part Pop, One Part Quirk, Stir Well

For those brave souls who gritted their teeth through the hellish nightmare of mid-70's art-rock, the term art-pop may seem like just another thinly veiled dip into the abyss. But XTC blissfully balances the art-pop—the "art" part means that their hooks just happen to be consistently weird, and the "pop" part of it is that the weirdness is so catchy, it hardly ever seems selfconscious.