XTC legend Colin Moulding’s new three-track EP ‘Want It Bad (The Pep Talks and Playing Fields of Old England)’, offering a revealing glimpse into his enduringly inventive songwriting. Available on CD exclusively via Burning Shed, the spirited title track is accompanied by a James Bond-inspired track and a raw demo of ‘Want It Bad’, capturing Moulding’s distinctive English pop sensibility while opening a window onto the ideas, experiments and musical possibilities behind the finished songs.
The EP arrives 47 years to the week after XTC’s seminal single ‘Making Plans for Nigel’, written and sung by Moulding and released in 1979 as the lead single from ‘Drums and Wires’. The song became XTC’s first UK Top 20 hit and remains one of the defining recordings in the band’s catalogue.
The anniversary provides a fitting backdrop for a new release from the songwriter whose melodic voice and idiosyncratic approach helped shape XTC’s music and legacy — and whose work continues to explore the relationship between a fully formed song and the creative process that brings it to life.
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