From: Jack Scanlon, scanman72358@yahoo.com
Subject: Philadelphia Inquirer review of AENT (3 out of 4 Stars)
Date: 2/24/2002 11:47:45 AM
To: seance@lists.no-fi.com


Before guitarists began to shoe-gaze drearily or
grunge greasily, there was the Church, whose
atmospheric jangle borrowed as much from the Byrds as
from Television. In 1980, bassist/lyricist Steve
Kilbey and guitarists Marty Willson-Piper and Peter
Koppes brought forth an aggressive post-punk drone. 
Sixteen discs later, what that overly ethereal
aesthetic has lost in pop hooks, it has gained in
slow-building tension.

The smooth veneer of "The Awful Ache" and "Night
Friends" is occasionally cracked by time changes. But
"After Everything's" crepuscular feel is best
represented on "Numbers," the elegaic "Invisible," and
the title tune.  While Kilbey sings obtuse lyrics
about love lost and dead friends in an airy mumble,
Willson-Piper and Koppes spin glistening spider webs
of sound in an atmosphere of barely audible melody.

---A.D. Amorosi


Jack

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