An excellent album at that. Skylarking is definitely one of XTC's top four albums (the other three being Black Sea, Drums and Wires and English Settlement). For some reason I feel it receives more recognition than the other three, possibly because it was at their height of popularity. In truth I haven't listened to it in quite some time but it's a solid album through and through, this was when both Alan Patridge and Colin Moulding were at their best.
Perhaps you'd be more interested in XTC's sister project, the Dukes of Stratosphear. It was conceived as a tribute to sixties psychedelic rock and it really sounds like a page out of that history book. I think they ended up recording two LPs, quite a bit of nifty tunes on them too. This was the best song I could find on youtube:
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