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It must be hard work being an XTC completist, what with all the out-takes and demos Andy Partridge puts out in box sets every so often and how he seems to release a Peter Blevgad collaboration every month. The last two proper XTC albums and their sidelong demo compilations are now out together in Apple Box, complete with - hurrah! - two new tracks. Luckily Partridge, not a man known for technological impulses, has put these two tracks online, as long as you join the mailing list. If that seems like too much hard work, the really rather good Spiral is downloadable here. (link via Large Hearted Boy)