X releases their first album in 35 years and it's great

I'm listening to X's new album, released today on Bandcamp, and it's amazingly good -- loaded with energy and Billy Zoom's mind-warping guitar. It's the original line-up and the band's first album in 35 years. It's called Alphabetland and the cover is by artist Wayne White.

From Rolling Stone:

In interviews, the band members have expressed mixed emotions about making a new album. All of them except for Zoom said they would want to make a new one in a 2017 Rolling Stone profile of the group.

Families are complicated, Doe said at the time, carefully choosing his words. Theres certain Yeah, Im not gonna go there.

It wouldnt work, Zoom said. The chemistry wouldnt be right. [Some band members] are in different places and stubborn, and I dont want to go into detail, but it wouldnt sound like an X record. The band has yet to explain the change of heart.

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