From: Sue C, kascam@bigpond.com Subject: Re: random AENT reviews Date: 2/25/2002 1:03:06 AM To: markp@mitchworldusa.net seance@lists.no-fi.com The VH1.com review, my god, Im speechless. Steve wants to be Bono?? Yeah, sure...Im sorry, but this is one music critic who doesn't understand the band....what a jerk!! He says Steve has therefore adopted the guise of a tortured poet instead?!....puhleeze...this guy just doesnt get it. I dont mind critics criticising music, but seeing into his head is another thing. Sue Anyway, here's the Play Louder review in full...makes more sense...except maybe the 'fist clenching mullet heads' bit! <<< Sometimes referred to as the Antipodean answer to our very own Chameleons, primarily because of their stamina, their way with a moody riff and - in the case of 'After Everything Now This' - even their oblique album titles, The Church are one of those bands who find themselves being described as "heroic" simply because they're still motoring along two decades down the line. Mind you, in those olden golden days they would have been described as "heroic" because their widescreen, yet shadowy, music would have been lapped up by fist-clenching mullet-heads in pixie boots who thought that U2 had blown their cool by daring to break massive with 'War'. Some things never change. Indeed, in spite of the vagaries of time, there is sweet serendipity in the release of this album: for The Church's early days think of The Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'; for their current muse, consider moody young guns Haven. The guitars are deadpan and driving. The vocals are dry and mysterious (The Church are avid followers of the No Lyric Sheet brigade, as is the case with most bands who've maintained a devoted following for longer than two Strokes singles). And much of 'After Everything Now This' is sumptuously-made, intensely-played rock music which, in the case of 'Night Friends' slightly over eggs the cosmic pudding, but more often than not displays a penchant for melody and tension which would shame many of the new millennium's pop pups. Young bands today. Don't know they're born, etcetera etcetera... Simon Williams reviewed on 31.jan.02 >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark P" > http://www.playlouder.com/review/458church.html > > This one is in German -- > > http://www.bloom.de/articles/article_002450.htm > > From VH1.com --