Andy Partridge Says...

"Ever since I was a teenage kid I've had a hankering to be totally free with music and just pluck it from the air; to be constantly in contact with the source of inspiration. Not just to have a flash of inspiration and then take it and beat it and shape it and bang it with a hammer until it looks more acceptable or sounds more acceptable. I have kind of been externally excited by being constantly plugged into the juice, the creative juice. This is the chance to do that. If a piece of music with Monstrance doesn't work, we don't use it and we carry on and record something else. Everything is plucked from the air and nothing is discussed. It's just all grabbed."

- UK musician Andy Partridge interviewed over at CMJ.



- Read more at the XTC Chalkhills site.

- Pitchfork's 7.5 review of Monstrance.