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Nonsuch (styled as NONSVCH.) is the twelfth studio album by the English band XTC, released on 27 April 1992. In a 1992 MTV interview, Andy Partridge said that he had selected the name of the album after encountering a drawing of Nonsuch Palace and, thinking that the archaic word “Nonsuch” meant “does not exist” rather than, as he later learned, “unique”. The album title may have derived from a couplet in the lyrics of the final song of Oranges and Lemons (their previous studio album) “Chalkhills and Children”:

I’m skating over thin ice
while some nonesuch net holds me aloft

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. “The Disappointed” was nominated for an Ivor Novello award. The album reached No. 1 on... Read on...