Yuku free message boards
Username or E-mail:
Password:
Forgot
Password?
Sign Up
Grab the Yuku app
Search:
[Official Site]
[Facebook]
[MySpace]
[Shadow Cabinet]
[Tabs]
[Discography]
[Seance]
[Time Being]
[PK]
[MWP]
[Drumsandbells]
RSS
Email
Hotel Womb - For Fans of the Church
>
Myths You Made / News, Speculation and Questions
>
REVIEWS of Untitled #23 / Coffee Hounds / Pangaea ep
0 Points
Search this Topic:
Remove this ad
«Prev
1
2
3
Next»
Jump
Forum Jump
Welcome
Myths You Made / News, Speculation and Questions
The Feast
Further Aventures of the Time Being / Current Tour & Past Gigs
After Everything / The Church Discography
Two Places At Once / Solo Work / Side Projects
The Great Machine / Instruments & Gear, Chords and Tabs
Happy Hunting Ground
Under the Milky Way / Lounge
Why Don't You Love Me / Other Artists
Volumes / Womb Music
Grandiose / Other General Arts and Web Sites
You're Still Beautiful / Photos of Fans
All I know / Suggestions, Advice, and Challenges
<< Previous Topic
Next Topic >>
Re: REVIEWS of Untitled #23 / Coffee Hounds / Pangaea ep
Author
Comment
Dugster
#1
[-]
Faith Healer
Space Saviour
Posts
: 1022
Jun 1 09 4:08 AM
Reply
Quote
More
My Recent Posts
Glide magazine review 3.5 stars http://www.glidemagazine.com/articles/54766/the-church.html
The Church
Untitled #23
By Doug Collette
May 27, 2009
Any musician with a well-defined style must also be the consummate recording artist to prevent with each successive recording from sounding like mere repetition of it predecessor. The Church are artists of just that caliber and their latest album, Untitled #23, bears evidence to those high standards.
"Cobalt Blue" is a somewhat unsettling start, if only because guitars almost but not quite take second place to the oozing synthesizer. But "Deadman's Hand" is more like the real Church: the sounds of fretboards intertwine ever so slowly to introduce, then support, Steve Kilbey's whispered vocals. Tim Powles' foursquare drumming lends further shape to the track.
Elsewhere, song structures provide accessibility though individual tracks are less important in the context of Untitled #23 because the cuts flow in and out of each other as if in a dream. The Church, however, know how to add just the proper flourishes to maintain the album's momentum (dreamlike as it might be): Peter Koppes' acoustic guitars chime in on "Pangea" as do ghostly vocal harmonies that enlarge the soundscape, while there's actually an electric solo from Marty Wilson-Piper on "Sunken Sun."
Because there is no replication here of the Australian group's sole hit, "Under the Milky Way Tonight," nothing on this recording is going to reach out and grab any listener--though "Space Savior" comes close as it's almost upbeat and "Anchorage" likewise finds the band in unison playing and singing with a (languorous) verve like nowhere else on the ten tracks. The latter is an especially artful setup for the two-part conclusion "Lunar" and "Operetta."
Introspective perhaps to a fault, the music of The Church on Untitled #23 is as addictively insinuating as the best of their previous work.
<< Previous Topic
Next Topic >>
Forum Jump
Welcome
Myths You Made / News, Speculation and Questions
The Feast
Further Aventures of the Time Being / Current Tour & Past Gigs
After Everything / The Church Discography
Two Places At Once / Solo Work / Side Projects
The Great Machine / Instruments & Gear, Chords and Tabs
Happy Hunting Ground
Under the Milky Way / Lounge
Why Don't You Love Me / Other Artists
Volumes / Womb Music
Grandiose / Other General Arts and Web Sites
You're Still Beautiful / Photos of Fans
All I know / Suggestions, Advice, and Challenges
Share This
Email to Friend
del.icio.us
Digg it
Facebook
Blogger
Yahoo MyWeb
«Prev
1
2
3
Next»
Jump
Hotel Womb - For Fans of the Church
>
Myths You Made / News, Speculation and Questions
>
REVIEWS of Untitled #23 / Coffee Hounds / Pangaea ep
Click to subscribe by RSS
Click to receive E-mail notifications of replies
[Official Site]
[Facebook]
[MySpace]
[Shadow Cabinet]
[Tabs]
[Discography]
[Seance]
[The Time Being]
[PK's site]
[MWP's site]
[Drumsandbells]