From: Mark P, youamwho@yahoo.com
Subject: random AENT reviews
Date: 2/24/2002 12:05:08 PM
To: seance@lists.no-fi.com


http://www.playlouder.com/review/458church.html

This one is in German --

http://www.bloom.de/articles/article_002450.htm

From VH1.com --

The Church
After Everything ... Now This
(Thirsty Ear, 2002)

Like most Australian bands, The Church want to be U2 so bad even their
titles sound like Bono rejects. But you don?t get to the sixteenth
album of your career without achieving a certain consistency. After
Everything ... is therefore as meticulous in its attention to grand
gestures as it is steadily unsurprising. Each song slowly builds around
guitar and tape effects that call to mind unforgettable fires, streets
with no names, and a beautiful day with the threat of rain on the
horizon. Singer/bassist Steve Kilbey, however, is wary of how good you
need to be to pull off Bono?s posturing. So he?s adopted the guise of a
tortured poet instead, never rising above a jaded mutter. ?Journalists?
and ?lucky pricks? get their lashings on the churning ?Numbers,? and
?Radiance? creates a keen portrait of an incestuous community. The epic
length of several songs - both the grim ?Night Friends? and exhausted
?Invisible? clock in at over seven minutes - is leisurely or ponderous
according to taste. What never arrives, however, is the grand musical
release that has kept their Irish cousins packing stadiums. The secret
to the Church?s survival is their edgy gloom, and evidently it?s going
to stay that way. 

C. Bottomley 

Another one in German -- 

http://www.nightcreatures.de/wisdom/tontraeger/church.html


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