From: Charles Halverson, cth11@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Fw: review from rollingstone.com
Date: 2/5/2002 6:43:52 AM
To: seance@lists.no-fi.com



Very very cool...I had a feeling Fricke would do a review on this release, 
after his comments on Box of Birds. I even had thoughts of sending him a 
copy of AENT with the thought of him having stacks and stacks of new CD's to 
listen to and to say that I did it. I finally booked my flight yesterday to 
San Francisco to see the boys at Slims. Maybe Fricke will be there!

I have spun AENT a couple of times now and all I can say is MY GOD. Call me 
a sucker. Anybody out there that got tingles from "Great Machine" from HOB, 
This set is full of them. I am actually glad this release came out when it 
did, compared to the other two in the past(being in the fall) because this 
CD says "spring" all over it. Maybe I am too optomistic, I dont know. What a 
gorgeous CD.

Chuck H.
St. Paul, MN




----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Rendel" <arendel@ripco.com>
To: "Seance List" <seance@lists.no-fi.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: review from rollingstone.com


 >
 > The Church After Everything Now This (Thirsty Ear)
 >
 > Few rock bands have adored and explored the orchestral vocabulary and
 > singing ring of the electric guitar with the commitment and distinguished
 > touch of the Church. For founding members singer-bassist Steve Kilbey and
 > guitarists Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper, the art of jangle has
been
 > a life's work: After Everything Now This is the Australian group's 
twelfth
 > studio album since 1981 and true to precedent in its rippling gleam. 
After
 > Everything is also a masterpiece of stealth, a quiet killer in which
subtle
 > exquisite shocks of tonal theater -- the doomsday ticktock and gently
 > abrasive fuzz in "Numbers"; the ice-water drip of the arpeggios in
 > "Chromium" -- puncture the reverb without scarring it. The seamless-dream
 > quality of After Everything is no small accomplishment; the Church, with
 > drummer-producer Tim Powles, made the record in studios on three
continents.
 > But in these songs of dislocation and disconnection, intoned by Kilbey in
a
 > silken-lava baritone, Koppes' and Willson-Piper's guitars are a seductive
 > counterweight, piercing the tension with an elegantly disruptive twang in
 > "After Everything" and the interlocking dread of airplanelike hum, 
breathy
 > strum and the insistent static of a guitar pick scraped against a string
in
 > "Invisible." In fact, After Everything is virtually free of classic-rock
 > riff ego; the electricity in the Church's wraparound shimmer is in the
 > accumulation of sculpted detail, like the trebly shiver and spritz of
 > backward guitar framing the bullish distorted lead in "Reprieve." It is a
 > sound, and grace, that the Church have pursued for more than two decades,
 > and maybe you've heard it before. But you've rarely heard it better.
 > (DAVID FRICKE)
 > http://rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=15351
 >
 > XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
 > Alien
 >
 > http://www.mp3.com/magnetosphere
 > http://www.magnetosphere.com
 >
 >
 >




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