Artist: XTC
Title: Drums and Wires
Format: CD + Blu-ray – 2025 Expanded Edition with Dolby Atmos
Label: Ape House / Virgin Records
Catalogue Number: APEBD111
UPC: 633367797926
Release Year: 2025 (Expanded Remaster)
Genre: New Wave / Rock
Style: Post-Punk, Art Rock, Power Pop

Description:
XTC’s breakthrough album Drums and Wires returns in a definitive 2025 edition, newly remixed in Dolby Atmos by Steven Wilson. Revisiting the album he first tackled in 2014, Wilson brings a fresh aural perspective to one of 1979’s most inventive releases—now presented as a virtual box set on Blu-ray.

This collector-grade CD + Blu-ray package includes the original album, bonus tracks, demos, DJM mixes, and instrumentals—all in high-resolution stereo and surround formats. A must-have for audiophiles, collectors, and fans of studio craft.

CD & Blu-ray – 2014 Stereo Mix (LPCM 24/96):

1. Making Plans For Nigel
2. Helicopter
3. Day In Day Out
4. When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty
5. Ten Feet Tall (Original Album Version)
6. Roads Girdle the Globe
7. Real By Reel
8. Millions
9. That Is The Way
10. Outside World
11. Scissor Man
12. Complicated Game
13. Chain Of Command
14. Limelight
15. Life Begins at the Hop
16. Ten Feet Tall (Electric Version)
17. Wait 'Til Your Boat Goes Down
18. Complicated Game (Out-take)
19. That Is The Way (Original Pitch)
20. Chain Of Command (Alternate Take)

Blu-ray – 2025 Dolby Atmos Mix (plus 5.1 DTS-HD MA):

1. Making Plans For Nigel
2. Helicopter
3. Day In Day Out
4. When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty
5. Ten Feet Tall
6. Roads Girdle the Globe
7. Real By Reel
8. Millions
9. That Is The Way
10. Outside World
11. Scissor Man
12. Complicated Game
13. Homo Safari
14. Chain Of Command
15. Limelight
16. Bushman President
17. Pulsing Pulsing
18. Wait 'Til Your Boat Goes Down
19. Ten Feet Tall (Electric Version)
20. Officer Blue
21. Over Rusty Water
22. Sleepyheads
23. That Is The Way (Original Pitch)