The following excerpt from a 1994 interview captures the essense of SA better than anything I can say. (Steve and Marty interviewed by Sandra Garcia, B-Side Magazine)
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Steve suddenly decides to play inquisitor, asking, "So which is your favorite track on the album?"

I anticipated a question like that from these two. I do have an fast answer: I love the instrumental track 'Eastern.'

"Oh really? That's cool!" declares Steve.

Marty gives a proud smile. "Yeah, that's a great track."

And 'Angelica' is a favorite since that song has desperately been trying to appear on a Church album for years. It's been struggling to the surface and now the two of you finally whipped it out of your systems. What a gloriously screwed-up song! Especially that lively Lyric about Marty's tongue being a wet velvet caress... whoa!

"We literally did whip that off," laughs Marty. "This is one of the positive aspects of Peter not being in the group!"

"He wouldn't have let us just whip that song off," agrees Steve.

"This gave me the opportunity to go in there to the vocal booth and do something which... I think when I went in the vocal booth and did that, Steve was sitting in the control room shocked but digging it: like 'f-u-u-ck!"' Marty imitates an awed Steve then laughs, "I don't think he ever expected me to do something like that. And one of the reasons that I wouldn't have done something like that in the past was because Peter wouldn't have liked that."

"Hey, he's going to read this," quietly cautions Steve.

"No, this isn't anything negative against Peter," retorts Marty. "It's just first of all, he wouldn't have liked that. Secondly, I always felt that when Peter was in the group, if I wanted to do something, then Peter felt that he had to do something too. And I don't think that was necessarily a good reason for us to do something. I'd rather do nothing, because I don't want that to be the criterion for something to go on a record."

"The other thing is with the Church now is we're a duo. We're a duo," Steve stresses. "Where once upon a time it felt like it was me and these other fellows. Now I feel like it's a duo, and he's gotta sing and he's gotta make decisions, like being part of a duo. There's one bloke and then there's another bloke!" as Steve points at himself then at Marty.

"And it's not an easy task because Steve's such a charismatic singer and lyric writer!" smiles Marty.

"And now I am playing guitar, which is something I wanted to do. We're getting to do things we never got to do before. I never would have gotten to play guitar with Peter around. Not because he would have said don't do it, but..." shrugs Steve.

There were so many invisible lines drawn around the band members that they must have gotten as tangled as an old spider web.

"Yeah, it's good to be able to get in there and go into the vocal booth and improvise," Marty excitedly exclaims. "I even played a lot of bass on this record! I never would have done that before!"

It's fascinating when a band can come up with such genuinely intriguing songs while rearranging their sound structure. This album is still the Church, but with a whole new set of parameters to be ready broken. As Steve sings on 'Angelica:' the walls are "crashing down in a shower of sparks" in a huge way.

Steve suddenly grins, "So 'Eastern's your favorite? I play banjo on that and Marty played mandolin."

Can you see Steve grooving away on a banjo? Where was the camera?
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-Marcelo

FANTASY BOX-SET TRACKS FROM SOMETIME ANYWHERE:
Day of the Dead, Lost My Touch, Eastern, Two Places at Once