From: MBaroneO@aol.com
Subject: Re: good  fan reviews
Date: 2/7/2002 1:30:02 PM
To: seance@lists.no-fi.com


In a message dated 2/7/02 4:10:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
under_the_wheel@hotmail.com writes:

<< I think the production on the album is nothing short of amazing, and I 
don't 
 think anything is really buried in the mix.  Maybe the people making these 
 kinds of remarks have a crappy stereo or something or just haven't listened 
 to it enough times.  The first few times I heard it a lot of the tracks 
 seemed like a pretty big mess production-wise, but now I'm starting to hear 
 all the little treasures Tim hid in some of the songs.  And it really 
 works...it's like the best elements of the Church as well as people like My 
 Bloody Valentine and Radiohead.
 In addition, I don't think you can even compare this album to the older 
 stuff like BC.  In my opinion The Church seem to have given up that old 
 classic rock/psychedelic sound altogether, although that's not at all a bad 
 thing.  It's obvious to me, anyway, that they have really settled into a new 
 sound and probably won't be making any more albums that sound like Starfish. 
>>


ABSOLUTELY!  Like I said yesterday....The Church are now on another astral 
plane.
They have finally perfected what they had started with on Hologram Of Baal.  
A dense, swirling, emotional, detailed soundscape.  Nobody can touch them at 
what they do. And these are SONGS!  Richly melodic songs.  Not just guys 
playing around with their effects.
Radiohead have tried to mine the same territory but just can't achieve the 
warmth
and "triumphant sadness".  Others just sound too cool and detached.
AENT has brought it all home for me.  They are the best band on this friggin' 
planet.

MB