From: Dddaydreamer@aol.com
Subject: Mojo review
Date: 2/6/2002 12:01:52 PM
To: Seance List, seance@lists.no-fi.com


I don't know if anyone has posted this yet: 

The Church  
After Everything, Now This
cooking vinyl

In which the long-lived Canberra-formed band revert to type.

The Church started out as Byrdsian revivalists, but a neo-goth rethink would 
eventually bring them to the brink of major US success circa 1988"s Starfish. 
Now, after the pleasing detour that was 1999's cover versions album A Box Of 
Birds, AENT finds them sounding autumnal and cult-ish (note small 'c') as 
ever, frontman Steve Kilbey's cheerless lyrics honed as you might expect from 
a published poet, and Marty Willson-Piper's guitars still doused in echo and 
reverb. Your correspondent warmed to the record in the wee small hours, 
shadows and vino complementing songs evoking Talk Talk circa The Color Of 
Spring (Night Friends), and Bono on a downer (Radiance). The 
impressionistic-sounding title track, though, is a more idiosyncratic 
reminder of the band's gloomy elan. Fans are well served, but newcomerws 
might tire waiting for the group's charms to percolate.

James McNair