Saturday, March 18, 2006

The Church

Biography:

Best known for the shimmering "Under the Milky Way," their lone Top 40 hit, the Australian band the Church combined the jangling guitar pop of '60s icons like the Byrds with the opaque wordplay of frontman Steve Kilbey to create a lush, melancholy brand of neo-psychedelia rich in texture and melody. Formed in Sydney in 1980 by vocalist/bassist Kilbey with guitarist Peter Koppes and drummer Nick Ward, the Church recruited second guitarist Marty Willson-Piper before debuting the following year with Of Skin and Heart, an evocative collection highlighted by the ringing "The Unguarded Moment," a major success down under.

After replacing Ward with drummer Richard Ploog, the group resurfaced in 1982 with The Blurred Crusade, a stunning effort featuring mature standouts like "Almost With You" and "When You Were Mine." 1983's Seance continued to refine the Church's atmospheric sound, and the subsequent success of the EPs Persia and Remote Luxury helped earn the band an American deal with Warner Bros., which issued the excellent Heyday in 1986. After moving to Arista, the Church teamed with famed session guitarists Danny Kortchmar and Waddy Wachtel to record 1988's Starfish, their most artistically and commercially successful effort to date. Highlighted by "Under the Milky Way," the album also featured the minor hits "Reptile" and "Spark," a marvelous pop blast penned by Willson-Piper. >>MORE READ<<

10 COMMENTS:

Ben on 4:08 pm said...

The follow-up, 1990's Gold Afternoon Fix, failed to repeat the success of its predecessor as the single "Metropolis" garnered only minor airplay. Ploog left the Church prior to the release of 1992's Priest Aura, which featured former Patti Smith Group drummer Jay Dee Daugherty; by 1994's Sometime Anywhere, only Kilbey and Willson-Piper remained, recording with the aid of a drum machine. When the album failed to crack the charts, Arista dropped the group from their contract, and with new drummer Tim Powles, the Church issued 1996's Magician Among the Spirits on the tiny White label; a subsequent tour marked Koppes' return to the fold. Hologram of Baal followed in 1998, and a year later the Church released the covers collection Box of Birds. After Everything Now This and the double album Parallel Universe both appeared in 2002. The group signed with Cooking Vinyl in 2003, releasing Forget Yourself, a magical collection of new songs that harkened back to their "Metropolis" days. In 2005 they released Momento Descuidado, an unplugged collection of old and new tracks for the Liberation Blue acoustic series.

Anonymous said...

i love the church!any chance of uploading the seance album?thanks

Anonymous said...

Seance here -

http://rapidshare.de/files/13560333/churchseanc.rar.html

Anonymous said...

Seance here :-

http://rapidshare.de/files/13560333/churchseanc.rar.html

Ben on 10:51 am said...

Thanks for the help Nils.

Anonymous said...

Momento descuidado
http://rapidshare.de/files/6812502/CRCH1.zip
http://rapidshare.de/files/6812544/CYRHC2.zip.html

Pass: AlienOnAcid

More albums please??

Ben on 6:12 am said...

Thank you My friend I wish I have a friend to help me.

Unknown on 10:11 am said...

Very very nice.Almost never findany Church on the net - don't know why as everybody seems to like them.
There seems to be a couple of seriousglitches on Travel By Thought from Seance. Is this the download or something I messed up on? Pity that, one of my fav pieces here.

Cheers!
Son of Incog.

Anonymous said...

12 MIDNIGHT, TIVOLI, GEORGE STREET SYDNEY, SEANCE JUST RELEASED AHH THOSE WERE THE DAYS...

Anonymous said...

links are all dead. any chance of re-uploading it again? thanks

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