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I'm a massive Church fan and when this CD came out it did nothing for me at all, in fact it sounded like a compilation of out-takes and cast offs. I even went as far as to rubbish it in a Church fanzine. After 6 years it's finally got under my skin and I can't shake it.
Talk about bad vibes, this has it in spades. As the album unfolds the tracks get steadily more oppressive and claustrophobic - check out the wonderful "Ladyboy" and the almost suffocating "Could Be Anyone". The axis on which the whole thing swings is the 15 minute title track, a twisted sister to Floyds "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun".
If ever you've been messed up at any part of your life, this album will speak to you. I'm not saying you'll get any answers from it, just that you'll be in the company of someone who's been through it and more.
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love their first two albums but box of birds shows that they are brilliant at cover versions and in fact steve harley's "ritz" is far and away the highlight of this cd - and they do it better!
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In 1997, Britain was awash in a postmodern wave of resurgent cultural imperialist glorification personified by the turgid Brit-pop phenomenon. While the newly-elected charismatic Machiavellian talisman Prime Minister Anthony B. Liar was busy entertaining establishment-friendly heir to the Beatles, Oasis, in number 10 Downing Street, an Australian band, The Church, had released a resurgent music of a different kind, a reinvented neo-pyschedelic-quasi-symphonic synthesis.
The Church began their career by taking melancholy, pathos and angst from the book of glam-rock, and mixing it with the 'jangling' guitars and the melodic progressions from the book of folk-rock. By the time of 'Heyday' (1985) and particularly 'Milky Way' (1988), the band changed direction and started to experiment with atmospheric arrangements which emphasized a semi-psychedelic counterpoint of guitar sounds.
The culmination of their sound experiments came together in the intricate and versatile 'Magician Among The Spirits' (1996), a production reminiscent of both King Crimson and Pink Floyd. 'Magician' is a complex and brilliant work, it's just a pity that the majority of music journalism appeared to have restricted their critical faculties of the time to the hype that surrounded 'Cool Britannia'.
The Church began their career by taking melancholy, pathos and angst from the book of glam-rock, and mixing it with the 'jangling' guitars and the melodic progressions from the book of folk-rock. By the time of 'Heyday' (1985) and particularly 'Milky Way' (1988), the band changed direction and started to experiment with atmospheric arrangements which emphasized a semi-psychedelic counterpoint of guitar sounds.
The culmination of their sound experiments came together in the intricate and versatile 'Magician Among The Spirits' (1996), a production reminiscent of both King Crimson and Pink Floyd. 'Magician' is a complex and brilliant work, it's just a pity that the majority of music journalism appeared to have restricted their critical faculties of the time to the hype that surrounded 'Cool Britannia'.
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