Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)

Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
Studio album by
XTC
Released23 May 2000
RecordedApril–December 1999
StudioIdea Studios, Wiltshire and Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, England
Length50:54
LabelCooking Vinyl
ProducerNick Davis
XTC chronology
Apple Venus Volume 1
(1999) 		Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
(2000) 		Homegrown
(2001)
Singles from Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
  1. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love"
    Released: May 2000

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
NME7/10[3]
Pitchfork8.0/10[4]
PopMatters9/10[5]
Q[6]
Robert Christgau(2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention)[7]
Rolling Stone[8]

Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) is the fourteenth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released 23 May 2000 on Cooking Vinyl/Idea Records. Defined by bandmember Andy Partridge as the "eclectric" counterpart to 1999's Apple Venus Volume 1, it consists of rock-based material largely written between 1994 and 1996.[9] Wasp Star reached number 40 on the UK Albums Chart. In 2002, the group released an instrumental version of the album entitled Waspstrumental. XTC dissolved in 2006, leaving Wasp Star their last studio album to date.

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  9. ^ "XTC: Take Another Bite..." Lexicon. No. 11. 1999.